Sketched this piece out one morning while staring out the window into my back year. Sun was just coming up, it was calm and quiet. As I sketched it out, the title came to me when I was about 70% done with the sketch.

A September Morning

Both this tune & #4 came about after I wrote a brass quintet composition for the brass group I'm currently playing in here in Napa. The quintet piece was divided into 5 mvts. Later, when I decided to score it out for the Symphonic Band, I decided to combine 2 mvts into 1 complete piece. Creating a slow/fast contrast for each. So this tune combines MVTs 1 & 2 for the brass Quintet.

Something's Missing, It's Time To Go

As explained in Somethings Missing, Time To Go. 
This composition in based on MVTs 3 & 4

Foggy Day, Suns Out Lets Play

This tune was developed as I was sketching it out. One idea led to the next. By the time I was about 80% into it, it felt like someone was trying to return home from somewhere! Thus the title.

Heading For Home

This tune was originally written in 2018 as a Symphonic Orchestra. Not sure if you recall this or not, but there was a mass shooting in a local Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks where 12 victims died. Alaina Housley, one of those victims, and was also  a student of mine at Vintage, played in my orchestra and I am personally friends with her mom & dad.  Anyway, I wrote this piece and gave it to them. Now, last year, the Band Director in the district asked me if I had a piece that his entire music students (Band & Orchestra) could play together as their last selection for their Spring Concert. Long story short, I went back to this original work, tweaked it, got it down to 5+ minutes and they played it. Then I decided to score it out to just the Concert Band and got it to 4:17 minutes! Anyway.... Now you know!

William Gantt