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Originally Posted by Coleman

Percy Aldridge Grainger
This guy is the man. He is a genius if you disect his music. He plays around with melodies and augments them and does a bunch of other cool stuff. He's got a bunch of good pieces--"Gum-Suckers March", Austrailian Up-Country Tune

Coleman knows his composers rock:
Grainger IS the man I absolutely LOVE his Irish Tune from County Derry, great trombone solo in that piece. I've played a number of his pieces in HS concert band, my director was a sucker for him, but for good reasons

Cory McBride
Composed Perilous Voyage at 15, obviously a percussionist cuz one of the trumpet runs is impossible it the suggested tempo a 16th note chromatic sextuplet

go to jwpepper.com to listen to that one (RealAudio)