To Be a Wolf... (Grade 1.5)- MIDI Demo

Cyberspace (Grade 1) - Demo / Full Tempo Play-Along Track

Cyberspace (Grade 1) - Demo / Live Instruments with Audio Track

A piece for orchestra and audio track, chronicling US Airways (callsign "Cactus") flight 1549, which landed in the Hudson River in 2009 after a flock of geese destroyed its engine function. All 150 passengers and 5 crew members were able to exit the plane to safety.

The audio used consists of excerpts from air traffic control transmission recordings released into the public domain by the FAA as part of the accident data.

Orchestra recorded by the New England Conservatory Philharmonia, conducted by Earl Lee. 

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Cactus 1549

Grade 5

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Performed by the 2022 Cazadero Music Camp staff wind ensemble, conducted by Dr. Jonathan Knight.

Information Echo (Grade 5) - Live Performance

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The Tunnel Project is/was a series of musical pieces composed with tunnels in mind. Each installment in the series used a certain tunnel’s individual acoustic, locational, and thematic elements to create a site-specific piece of music. (That said, performers are welcome to play these pieces wherever they choose).

“Child’s Discovery” is a clarinet solo written for a tunnel connecting Cordonices Park and the Berkeley Rose Garden in Berkeley, California. As a child, I was briefly convinced that the tunnel had monsters in it, and this installment was meant to be a dialogue between the excitement of being a kid on an imaginary adventure and the fear of running into evil goblins along the way.

On-site performance by Ceylan Yagmur, clarinet

The Tunnel Project: Child's Discovery

Performed by the CBDA 2015 Jr. High Concert Band, James Mazzaferro, conductor.

Based on the Navy Hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," this piece was dedicated to the conductor's father, who served in the US Navy during WWII

Score and parts available via www.molliebudiansky.com

Strong to Save (Grade 3.5)

A fanfare-like concert opener commissioned by the Sonoma Valley High School music department to celebrate the school’s 125th anniversary. The school’s history has some interesting twists, from a two-person graduating class during its founding years, to makeshift classrooms in a church basement and the upstairs of a town store after the original building was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. In the spirit of honoring the school in its current form, I asked SVHS band director Casey Jones and his students to help create a title, offering several suggestions related to their school mascot, the dragon. They decided upon Flight of the Dragon, which I think goes excellently with this piece.

Performed by the 2017 Cazadero Music Camp Staff Wind Ensemble, conducted by Casey Jones, recorded by John Conant

Cazadero JH Staff Concert

Flight of the Dragon (Grade 3)

Commissioned for the 122nd Luther Burbank Rose Parade by the Montgomery High School Viking Band.

May Rose March (Grade 4)

What happens when a completely automated world malfunctions?
Source Material: Automated voice messages and public service announcements, public transportation systems; field recordings.

Link to graphic score: https://www.molliebudiansky.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ransom-Note-FINAL.pdf

Ransom Note

Performers: 2019 Cazadero Staff Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jonathan Knight

An aileron is a hinged flap found on the edge of an airplane wing, which controls the rolling or banking of the aircraft. Gentle rocking experienced in flight is due to the aileron on each wing working in contrary motion, in a form of mechanical counterpoint - one moves up, while the other moves down.

Aileron Lullaby (Grade 4)

Information Echo (Grade 5) - MIDI Demo

An ode to and for Cazadero Music Camp in Northern California, featuring variations, approximations, and representations of the most well-known tunes and melodies heard throughout every summer. Premiered by the 2013 Cazadero Music Camp High School Session Concert Band under the baton of Dr. Tony Mazzaferro. (This recording by the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble with Charles Peltz, conductor, as part of the spring 2013 composition readings) 

Reveille (Wake-up call)
"Cookies" (Appreciation song for the camp chef and cooks)
"'Round the Tables" (Birthday song sung in the dining hall)


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