Concert Band/Wind Ensemble works ranging from 2015 - present day
Grades 3-5

BAND WORKS

Tom and Jerry Theme (Pop Version)

Soundtrack to the Super Mario 64 romhack B3313(Version 0.7). Ripped from YouTube, so some track titles may be off.

Inside Castle Walls

A demo track that didn't make it into LEGO City

LEGO City Undercover OST - Harbour Police

There may a few corps audio performances missing, but here I have uploaded most of the finalist, semifinalist, and quarterfinalist audio performances. If there are any corps audio recordings missing, please let me know and I will do my best to locate and upload them. In the meantime, enjoy the amazing 2023 season of drum corps international.

Mandarins 2023 'Sinnerman'

Sunset // On the Receiving End of Departure

Premiered by the TCU Wind Symphony
Dancing Fire - Grade 5

Dancing Fire is a Latin-themed band composition that I wrote in dedication to the Arlington High School Band Program and my former band directors Michael Hejny, Nathan Burum, & Nathan Hervey. This is the premiere recording by the TCU Wind Symphony under the direction of Bobby Francis in Ed Landreth Auditroium, April 14, 2016

Dancing Fire (TCU Wind Symphony, Bobby Francis)

All The Day Long (2017)
Grade 4 

Commissioned by Eric Rettig and the Brenham High School Band Boosters, Brehnam, TX, for the retirement of Mrs. Sue Fletcher

Premiere recording by the Brehnam HS Symphonic Band, Eric Rettig, conductor

Based on the hymn Blessed Assurance

*currently unpublished, TBD at a later date

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All The Day Long (Brehnam HS Symphonic Band, Eric Rettig)

Full CatDog Theme Song (1998)

**Winner of the 2019 BMI Student Composer Awards**
*Finalist for the 2019 National Band Association William Revelli Composition Contest

Premiered by the TCU Wind Symphony
Bobby Francis, conductor
Recorded by Brian Youngblood
Edited by Kevin Day

Sheet music available at www.murphymusicpress.com

Grade 5
Completed October 2018
7.5 minutes approx.
Latin-influenced Wind Ensemble Work

"Havana" was a wind ensemble piece that I started working on in 2017, got about 30 measures into writing, and then put on the shelf. I couldn’t think of what to do with it or come up with an idea, so I ended up just putting it aside until I could. I ended up forgetting about it and while I was searching through my music files on night in September 2018, I stumbled on this work and found inspiration to write on what I had. I wanted to tell a story with the piece and make it authentic and so I spent a lot of time carefully writing the work. 

"Havana" (for Wind Ensemble) is a 7.5-minute work that is heavily influenced on Cuban music, rhythms, and percussion. I wanted to highlight different dance genres such as Salsa, Mambo, and Cha-Cha, while also making the piece in my own voice. I have a strong love for Latin music and so this was incredibly fun to write. There are many “Latin-influenced” pieces for band already and so I wanted to make this one stand out as one that is exciting and memorable. I hope that performers and audiences will tap their foot, bop their heads, and feel the music.


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Havana - TCU Wind Symphony, Bobby Francis (Premiere)

(2019)
Grade 4

Written for the Arlington High School Band Program (Arlington, TX) and directors Michael Hejny, Nathan Burum, Nathan Hervey, and Brian Lowe, In dedication to the family of Jonathan Foreman, in loving memory (2000-2018). �

Available at Murphy Music Press

Program Note:
A Song for Tomorrow is a composition that is very near and dear to my heart. The piece was composed in memory of my friend Jonathan Foreman, who tragically died in September of 2018. Jonathan, his older brother David, and their family and I were close when we were in high school and so his death hit me very hard; as well as the family, and the students and faculty of Arlington High School. For his funeral, the room was packed with Arlington High School teachers, students, and alumni who knew Jonathan. Arlington High School was always a family and so it was amazing to see how many people came out to support and say their goodbyes. After the funeral service, I felt a deep pulling on my heart that I need to write something for David and the Foreman family, as a tribute to Jonathan. I pondered what to do for months until I was able to come up with a title and an idea for the piece. The title of the composition, A Song for Tomorrow, is inspired by a Latin phrase that was printed on Jonathan’s funeral program. This phrase read “Cras alius dies est”, which means “Tomorrow is Another Day”. 

The song is meant to embody who Jonathan was, and provide hope and comfort to the family and friends who knew him for the days to come. The song features a chorale that I came up with that comes back in different forms throughout the piece. Jonathan was a trumpet player and so I wrote an off-stage trumpet solo that is played (which represents him), as well as a trumpet section feature that builds the climax of the piece. The piece explores different conflictions and dissonances, until coming to a peaceful resolution. This was incredibly hard for me to write and so I wanted to make sure that I put everything in my heart into this work. I hope that this piece can be comforting and provide peace to all who have lost someone close to them. I hope it gives them the strength to carry on through the days ahead, for every tomorrow that comes.

A Song for Tomorrow - Arlington High School Wind Symphony (Premiere)

Train's A Comin' 1941

Shimmering Sunshine (Grade 4)
Consortium Premiere
San José State University Wind Ensemble
David Vickerman, conductor

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Shimmering Sunshine - San José State University Wind Ensemble, David Vickerman

This sampler represents a selection of songs featured on the NBC Saturday morning cartoon "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3" ripped from the third disc of the complete DVD set by Shout! Factory.

Music by Michael Tavera

Original series and music © DIC Entertainment / Nintendo of America / DHX Media

It's A Dog's Life

Concerto for Euphonium & Wind Ensemble (2018, rev. 2019)
Hiram Diaz, euphonium of "The President's Own" Marine Band
Performed with "The Pershing's Own" Army Band
Fort Myer, VA | 2020 U.S. Army Band Tuba/Euphonium Workshop

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Concerto for Euphonium & Wind Ensemble - Hiram Diaz, "The Pershing's Own" United States Army Band

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Welcome back to Half-Ass Rap Battles! Today we have a battle of the goofy mutilated murderers: MDHHCD vs Hash-Slinging Slasher

-LYRICS-

Man Door:
(Yo) whatcha gonna do, wave at me with your nub singed?
I got a handle on this battle; Man Door is unhinged
Oh look, more slime to spill down the Krusty Krab walls as usual
Frying and firing this fry cook like a 2nd funeral
My bars have got that secret sauce that you're lacking, huh?
You couldn’t flip a line if both of your hands were spatulas
Speed of Gary when you’re rhyming. Try to run from my sickle
You’re bout as scary as a pirate tryna come for my pickle (ugh)
Hop back on your bus, cuz you best be retreating
Don’t need Nosferatu, I’ll knock your lights out neatly
Let’s hope your verse is like your phone calls: no speaking
I’ll leave you in the dumpster, so good luck… sweaty

Hash-Slinging Slasher
Staying up… at night with THAT verse? Bad decision
But to be fair, it was longer than your story to begin with
How’s a guy with no name or design think he’s not losing?
Both raise our eyebrows: you with fear, me with confusion
Either learn better English or get slayed hard, bitch
If I let you in, be ready for a graveyard shift
And with your hook lodged in the door, it’s time that I sped up
I’m looking to see red like “dude, can I get some ketchup?”
I got your ass sprinting backwards like a gas-thieving bastard
Yo, you’re a trash-flinging rapper, and I’m the Hash-Slinging Slasher
Go back to stealing steres, you copypasta wannabe
I stopped the voice cuz I was nervous you’d keep spitting awfully


Light as Man Door hand Hook Car Door
Commander Jacob as Hash-Slinging Slasher
Zawesome as Ketchup Requester (cameo)
Written by Commander Jacob and Zawesome
Edited and thumbnailed by Commander Jacob
Mixed by Light
Prod. by 2Deep

Man Door Hand Hook Car Door vs Hash-Slinging Slasher | Half-Ass Rap Battles

mix of Gold 2013 and Howell with Philharmonic percussion samples.

Doctor Who theme 2013 special mix

Kevin Day (b. 1996) is an internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, and jazz pianist based in San Diego, California. Known for his exuberant, introspective, and groove-oriented composition style, Mr Day’s music fuses genres such as jazz, contemporary classical, R&B, Soul, and more. He has been performed by some of the world’s top instrumental soloists, wind bands, chamber ensembles, and symphony orchestras. He has composed over 250 works, nine concerti, and has had performances throughout the United States, Canada, Austria, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and more.

Mr. Day is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship for Music Composition, a winner of the BMI Composer Award, the TCU Alumni Outstanding Young Professional Award, a three-time ASCAP Morton Gould Finalist, a finalist for the ABA Sousa-Oswald Award, and a finalist for the NBA Revelli Award. His most recent works include his acclaimed Concerto for Wind Ensemble, as well as a double concerto for trombone and piano entitled Departures, which will be premiered later this year by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Cincinnati Opera recently announced the launch of The Black Opera Project, a ground-breaking three-opera commissioning initiative that engages Black creators to develop new works celebrating Black stories. Mr. Day’s original opera, LALOVAVI: An Afro-Futurist opera in Three Acts, will be the first work to be featured.  

A native of Arlington, Texas, Mr. Day holds degrees from Texas Christian University (TCU), the University of Georgia, and is ABD completing his doctorate in composition from the University of Miami Frost School of Music. He has studied composition with Dorothy Hindman, Charles Norman Mason, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Emily Koh, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Neil Anderson-Himmelspach.

A Song for Tomorrow - Arlington High School Wind Symphony (Premiere)

Kevin Day

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