PREPARE NOW for Meaningful Events!


 Honoring Our Veterans & Special Dates! (Listen on Spotify here)

Choice Music for Important Dates:


    •    17 January: Operation Desert Storm began.  STORMWORKS
    •    27 January: Signing of Vietnam Peace Accord.  STORMQUEST & A Wish to the WORLD
    •    8 February: The Birthday of Composer John Williams.  Forbidden Fortress from STORMQUEST, or ERICH!, one of John Williams' most admired Composers.
    •    10 February: The Birthday of Jerry Goldsmith.  The Search for TRUEFire from STORMQUEST is a tribute to this, my best Hero of Music.
    •    12 February: The Birthday of Lincoln. All Music above.
    •    14 February:  By Love Inviolate and By Love Compelled.
    •    18 February: Chinese New Year & President's Day. All Above Music, and TIMESTORM, a Dance of the Wu Li Master, and WU-Technesophia.
    •    23 February: US Marines take Iwo Jima 1945:  Courage at the Wall of Fire from STORMQUEST.
    •    3 March: Premiere and recording of WAIT of the WORLD in The Netherlands in 1999.
    •    8 March: Premiere of SON of the STORM. All Music.
    •    11 March: Premiere of The FOUNTAINHEAD.
    •    17 March: Saint Patrick's Day.  Patrick's Rune
    •    21 March: The Birthday of JS Bach.  “I” of the STORM.  
    •    24 March: The Day of the "Great Escape".  Escape from Plato's Cave.  Escape from Bataan. 
    •    11 April: Desert Storm Ceasefire 1991:  STORMWORKS, America the Brave, many others.
    •    11 April: Also on this date, the premiere of Festival of Light!, 50 years to the day after the first concentration camp was liberated in 1945.
    •    9-14 April: The Anniversary of the Bataan Death March.  Kakehashi: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, Escape from Bataan, and much more, all of the above.

    •    APRIL & NOVEMBER: Anniversary dates of Herman Melville's Moby Dick:  20 November 1820 is the actual date the Essex was attacked by a lone whale.  AHAB, for Actor & Wind Ensemble.  There is also a version for Actor and Orchestra.  There are also 2 Novels by Stephen Melillo, including Audio Books and an Album of Excerpts:  Excerpts from the Ahab, Death to Moby Dick Love Stories by Stephen Melillo.

 
    •    15 April: The Birthday of Leonardo DaVinci.  Form & Function from The FOUNTAINHEAD.
    •    18 April: The birth of Miklos Rozsa! All of the STORM Music.
    •    29 April: The Birthday of Duke Ellington.  Time to Take Back the Knights, Hajj, Swing Slave, Jurassic Blues.
    •    8 May: VE Day 1945: Many pieces from the entire Storm library! (see above!)
    •    10 May: Premiere of Symphony 2. The birthday of Dimitri Tiomkin & Max Steiner.  Godspeed!
    •    18 May: Armed Forces Day. Music to Honour Our Veterans... above.
    •    29 May: The Birthday of Erich Wolfgang Korngold!  ERICH!
    •    30 May: Memorial Day. Music to Honour Our Veterans... above.
    •    6 June: D-Day 1944:  The FOUNTAINHEAD, A Wish to the World, STORMQUEST. 
    •    14 June: Flag Day.  STAR!  Also, the US Army Founded 1775, Class of '39 Fight Song. 
    •    22 June: Pledge of Allegiance Recognized by Congress 1942,  STAR! 
    •    25 June: Korean War Began 1950:  Triumph at Cho-Sin from STORMQUEST.
    •    29 June: The Birthday of Bernard Herrman.  Escape from Plato's Cave.
    •    4 July:  STAR! and of course, Music to Honour Our Veterans... above.
    •    7 July : The Birthday of Gustav Mahler. Escape from Plato's Cave.
    •    27 July : Signing of Korean Armistice. Music to Honour Our Veterans... above. Triumph at Cho-Sin from STORMQUEST.
    •    4 August: US Coast Guard Established:  Honor, Courage… Commitment. 
    •    2 September: Victory in Pacific. Music to Honour Our Veterans... above.
    •    11 September:  The FOUNTAINHEAD, A Wish to the World, STORMQUEST, America the Brave, Trial & Terror… up to and including the entirety of STORM-Works.
    •    14 September: Star Spangled Banner, written in 1814:  STAR!  
    •    17 September: US Constitution approved 1787: Many pieces from the STORM Library. 
    •    18 September: US Air Force Established 1947:  In a Service Beyond Self. 
    •    20 September: POW & MIA Day:  Twilight's Last Gleaming.
    •    12 October: Columbus Day.  The SHOEMAKER, an Immigrant & a Dream.
    •    13 October: US Navy Established 1775: Honor, Courage… Commitment. 
    •    22 October: MacArthur returns. Music to Honour Our Veterans... above.  Escape from Bataan
    •    10 November: US Marine Corps Established 1775:  A Wish to the World, Courage at the Wall of Fire.
    •    11 November: Veterans Day. Music to Honour Our Veterans... above.
    •    27 November: The Birthday of Bruce Lee.  Arena, TIMESTORM, a Dance of the Wu-Li Master, WU-Technesophia, Despite All Else.
    •    7 December: Music to Honour Our Veterans... above.
    •    16 December: The Birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven.  Once More Unto the Breach, and I HEAR NOW IN HEAVEN!

Chanukah, Ramadan, Christmas:  Festival of Light, HAJJ, O Come Holy Night