Dedicated to "SSIM" and a much larger Story, that one day, must be told. This article appeared in the June 2019 Issue of "The Journal of the Association of Concert Bands".
“Never Forgotten” has been played around the world. People…
Feb 15 2024
Feb 15 2024
Dedicated to "SSIM" and a much larger Story, that one day, must be told. This article appeared in the June 2019 Issue of "The Journal of the Association of Concert Bands".
“Never Forgotten” has been played around the world. People…
Feb 10 2024
10 FEB 2024
On the Birthday of Hero, Jerry Goldsmith
D-9 for Luxembourg
WARNING: Much here! Ready for the told and untold stories?
Chapter 3 (Grade 2-3) “The Search for Truefire!”
S T O R M Q U E S…
Jan 8 2024
For teens and people who love them.
There’s only 1 way to be 65 years old and resurrect a book written while you’re a teenager, about a teenager, for the teens you’ll one day…
Read moreDec 26 2023
The “world” constantly unleashes its wars, its divisions, its dictates against reason, its fomenting of hatred, and a list you well know. Now imagine LOVE unleashed, a Love of Humanity, a True Romantic Love, a Timeless Love.
The “Ahab, &…
Read moreSep 13 2023
POW Speech for 14 SEP 2023 at PACMOAA
Speech written to honor the Souls of Bataan & Corregidor
by © STEPHEN MELILLO IGNA 11 SEP 2023
Tomorrow, (15 SEP) is National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
The form of the presentation is…
Read moreJun 13 2023
A link to the full concert on Youtube is below…
Interview by Carter Schmelz 6 JUN 2023
After the 21 APR 2023 Little Creek Navy Base Concert of Beyond Courage, Kakehashi: That We Might Live
General Questions:
What inspired you…
Read moreMay 30 2023
Once there was a Woman in a race… Her training put her far in front of the other runners. After she crossed the finish line.. (in her mind there was no such thing)… she waited for the media and…
Read moreMar 15 2023
Well, yeah. In 1985, the Harrison Jazz Ensemble went to Canada, as the article says. But what’s not there is the sequel. We went back and became…
Read moreMar 3 2023
3 MAR 2023
Music to LIVE Again for!
“Romance” from the Concerto for Violin
Today is the anniversary of STORMWORKS Chapter 3: WAIT of the WORLD, recorded in The Netherlands by the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands…
Read moreFeb 28 2023
What follows is super compressed. When you're ready to absorb this, get a cup of coffee or tea.
“Probability & Statistics” was one of my favorite subjects. Feel free to calculate the ODDS of all this.
Feb 7 2023
Mahler said, “If a Composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in Music.”
Prompted by…
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