Thanks for stopping by, and welcome to my blog! I hope you had a great week. In this blog post, we are celebrating Black History Month. In particular, we will focus on Tony winner, Grammy winner, and Oscar nominee, Cynthia Erivo, the Nigerian-British actress, singer, and songwriter, and one of the two stars of the recent fan-favorite Wicked movies. We are also featuring three of my “pop” arrangements from Wicked for woodwind quintet. Read my blog post to learn more.

Thanks for stopping by, and welcome to my blog. I hope you had a great week. In this week’s blog post, I will be discussing my inspiration for writing a woodwind quintet arrangement of Davide Delle Cese’s classic symphonic march L’Inglesina (The Little English Girl).” I will also discuss my upcoming publication, Three European Marches. Read my latest blog post now to find out more.

Here are some thoughts on my arrangement of Alexander Borodin’s masterwork in orchestration, the “Polovtsian Dances Overture,” transcribed here for a woodwind quintet with optional percussion.