The last of summer may not feel so lazy as it did to Carl Sandburg a hundred years ago when he wrote this short poem. Here and now in Middle Tennessee, August means a bustle of back-to-school time, and admittedly it’s not easy to get a good look at the stars if ...
By Ralph Ford. Concert Band Conductor Score. Musically depicting the legend of the mysterious Shades Valley in central Alabama, this work draws its inspiration from the poem of the same name written by Ethel Armes. The percussion section sets the stage f
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches 134 CAPTAIN SIMON SUGGS. CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. THE CAPTAIN IS ARRAIGNED BEFORE " A JURY OF HIS COUNTRY." FOR a year or two after the Captain's conversion at the ...
This much is known of Pete Ray. He and three other pilots in the Alabama Air National Guard joined what was then an ultra-secret CIA operation, a plan to liberate Cuba from Fidel Castro. The mission was a stunning failure that resulted in the death or capture of 1,200 men. It was fo...
By Ralph Ford. Concert Band Conductor Score & Parts. Musically depicting the legend of the mysterious Shades Valley in central Alabama, this work draws its inspiration from the poem of the same name written by Ethel Armes. The percussion section sets the