Name: Run Run by The Australian Army Band
Duration: 6 min 4 s
Description: This album contains original works composed by members of the Australian Army Band.

This album contains original works composed by members of the Australian Army Band.

Run Run

Kelly Tang - Overture No.2 for Wind Band
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Leonard Tan
Esplanade Concert Hall
4th March 2025

Audio recordings courtesy of Singapore Symphony Group (SSG)

Kelly Tang - Overture No.2 for Wind Band - Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Tan

For those that have lost someone during war

The Ones Who Don’t Come Home

An adaption of the tango movement from The Treachery of Sounds, originally for Pierrot+ and electronics for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. This new version removes the electronics and expands the ensemble to a chamber orchestra. Premiered April, 2025, by Marc Sosnowchik and the University of Texas New Music Ensemble, Austin, TX.

The Lovers (UT New Music Ensemble world premiere)

Prelude and Fugato from Mama Dee’s Notebook is a tribute to my grandmother, an extraordinary woman. Born the thirteenth child to a coal miner in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she lived through the full force of the Great Depression. Despite the hardships of her upbringing, she earned multiple college degrees, her first being in music.
During the pandemic, as I sorted through some of her belongings, I discovered her harmony notebook from the spring of 1938. It was filled with routine theory exercises, but at the back were several short sketches, only a few measures long, labeled "atonal, March 1938." In those fragments, I glimpsed the workings of a fascinating musical mind. They reminded me of the times I’d heard her improvising organ preludes for her congregation— moments of pure, spontaneous creativity.

Inspired by those sketches, I crafted this Prelude and Fugato. The work draws from her ideas and evokes the rich, resonant sounds of a pipe organ, the kind that fills the space of a large church. As you listen, I hope you hear echoes of the music my Mama Dee might have composed had she pursued the life of a composer. 
Commissioned by World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, Inc. this work is dedicated to Dr. Matthew McInturf.

Puckett Mama Dee Prelude and Fugato premiere SHSU McInturf

Prelude and Fugato from Mama Dee's Notebook

PASTORALE

Santa Cruz Voice's Mike Jacobi interviews Monterey Jazz Managing Director Bobbie Young on Raising the Standards on August 23, 2025 about the 68th Monterey Jazz Festival, September 26-28. 

This originally streamed on https://raisingthestandardsscv.podbean.com/e/episode-889-monterey-jazz-festival-with-guest-managing-director-bobbie-young/

Santa Cruz Voice Interview with Bobbie Young, August 23, 2025

Engines of Wonder seeks to enthrall the players and audience alike with a soundworld of energizing hope. The piece opens with an optional ethereal introduction, and is then propelled by the pulsing groove of the electronics in an ever-growing sense of amazement and wonder.

I hope this music demonstrates to musicians at the very beginning of their musical journey, as well as more advanced players, the power and joy of playing music together in a community, and spurs them to actively make music their entire lives.

Engines of Wonder (grade 1) ASU MIX

The Lovers is an adaptation of one movement from a much larger work, The Treachery of Sounds. Originally scored for Violin, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Percussion, and electronics, this new version captures the tango dance of the original, with two masked dancers, for Alto Saxophone and Piano.

The title is from René Magritte’s painting of a couple, kissing while their heads are shrouded. They are simultaneously intimately entwined and kept separate. I envisioned a wild tango, fragmented at first, that gradually gains cohesion, momentum, and passion. A brief, traditional tango interlude sees the dancers in the original version come together unmasked, only to return to the masked, unrequited, unstable dance from before, exhausting themselves.

I am grateful to Andrea Edlbauer and Oksana Kuzo for their fantastic musicianship and generous help in testing this new version and giving the world premiere of the work!

The Lovers

The Lovers (Duo Edlbauer Kuzo)

The Australian Army Band is made up of 11 separate bands, both regular and reserve, located all around Australia. Army bands can be found in each capital city as well as in Wagga Wagga, Townsville and Newcastle.

The Australian Army Band is tasked with maintaining Esprit De Corps among troops, as well as engaging with the community, and being the public face of the Army.

Bands contribute directly to the wellbeing of the Army and the community through participation in Military ceremonies and parades, Regal, Vice-Regal, Federal, State and Territory Government ceremonial functions, music education programs, concerts and community activities. 

Run Run

The Australian Army Band

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