Sep 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…
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Jun 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…
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May 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…
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Mar 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…
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Mar 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…
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Feb 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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Feb 2 2023
The Beautiful Rats
By © Stephen Melillo, IGNA 1 FEB 2023
Dedicated to Ed Lisk
“Hey, you ever heard the story of the ugly duckling?”
“Nope.”
“Okay, so once upon a time there was this really nice Rat named Rocco.”
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Jul 15 2022
Today is the Birthday of personal super-hero Composer, Miklós Rózsa. Many thanks to Lester Lim and his fine Musicians. This arrangement is available through ALFRED.
Here now is the Untold Story about this arrangement of ‘Music from BEN HUR.’
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Apr 7 2022
There are 101 arrangements of GOD BLESS AMERICA on a certain publisher's site. I had previously researched the potential Copyright Owners at the US Copyright Office…
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Mar 4 2022
The following article appeared in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Journal in October of 2021.
A PDF of the actual Magazine excerpt may be downloaded here:
Dear Reader: Per the author's request, in this article we consider the devices of…
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Feb 10 2022
10 Feb 2020
The Birthday of Jerry Goldsmith
“If you have a Man riding a horse, don’t score the hooves, score the mind of the man.” Jerry Goldsmith
It is IMPOSSIBLE to properly find words to express how much I…
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