Yesterday I pressed the button on a new piece of music for the concert band:

It combines a bunch of tunes I know fairly well but I suspect some of them (except Swing Low, Sweet Chariot) will be new to some of the my fellow players. What particularly attracted me though was that there is nothing particularly difficult about any individual part but there are some wonderful bits of orchestration as Michael Sweeney takes us from one piece to another. I think we can make a good job of it but I don’t think we’ll nail it on the first couple of tries… which is ideal for a piece that will make us work and get us to a worthwhile result.