The time has come for band conductors to reconsider what they are offering the public and to wonder if perhaps they would be offering a higher contribution to their town to serve to enlighten their listeners, rather than merely entertain them.
The future of the aesthetic wind band is at stake.
“Anyone seeing this catalog will have a hugely different impression of the history of the band than is customarily held throughout the profession.” — Lawrence Dale Harper
Music composed for the Retour des Cendres
The RETOUR DES CENDRES (“return of the ashes”) was the return of the mortal remains of Napoleon Bonaparte from the island of Saint Helena to France and the burial in Hôtel des Invalides in Paris in 1840.