Episode 426: A Lot at Stake

Music truly is the soundtrack of our lives, and it would be tough to find too many music lovers who would disagree: Music has the uncanny ability to attach itself to experiences and places, both real and imagined. For musicians who "play their part" in the music-making process, memories of their fellow players, their conductors, the venues, the rehearsals and the concerts can become imprinted for life; lodged like a stake through the music. Can you recall the first time you played the following? ​

Fanfare and Allegro
  Clifton Williams
  US Air Force Band of Mid America, Colonel Daniel Price
An Original Suite
  Gordon Jacob
  North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Migliaro Corporon
American Overture for Band, Op. 13
  Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
  Brigham Young University Wind Symphony,
  Don Peterson
Variations on a Korean Folk Song
  John Barnes Chance
  Massachusetts Wind Orchestra, Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr.
Symphonic Songs for Band
  Robert Russell Bennett
  Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra,
​  Mark Heron
Cuban Overture
  George Gershwin
  Texas A&M University Wind Symphony, Timothy B. Rhea