PREPARE NOW for Meaningful Events!
Honoring Our Veterans & Special Dates! (Listen on Spotify here)
- TAPS from Kakehashi: That We Might Live, Youtube Video Here.
- HYMN to the Marines YouTube Video Here.
-
The Day Music Died, from LAST WORLD STANDING, YouTube Video Here.
- STAR!, Jefferson's Vision, THOSE WHO SERVE... and many other pieces that are free downloads.
- All of STORMQUEST... written as a metaphor for World War II, Korea and Viet Nam.
- The World-History-making Chapter 5:8, including Kakehashi: That We Might Live & God Bless America
- LAST WORLD STANDING … scroll until you see this innovative, new form, Homage to Peace.
- THE FOUNTAINHEAD! ... written on D-Day 1994.
-
FOREVER STRONG Explore (Explore the DVD and larger Tribute)
- from Music for Strings, Orchestra, World Ensemble
- That We Might Live (for Orchestra)
- That Which Remains, a Hymn for Notre Dame
- Never Forgotten (for Strings, opt Chorus, opt Narration, and/or acapella Choir)
- Time to Take Back the Knights (for Orchestra)
- from STORMJourneys
- Class of '39 Fight Song
- Three Musical Haikus for Band (which includes Never Forgotten)
- Those Who Serve
- Monty!
- Patrick's Rune
- Honor, Courage… Commitment
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 0: Walk on the Water
- In a Cause Called “GLORIOUS!”
- In a Service Beyond Self
- Finest Hour
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 1: Without Warning
- WITHOUT WARNING (1st movement of Honor, Courage… Commitment)
- STORMWORKS
- The FOUNTAINHEAD
- America the Brave (with optional Chorus)
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 1-Prime: A WISH TO THE WORLD
- Twilight's Last Gleaming
- Heart of the Hero
- When Knights Have Fallen
- 1 1 1 4 6 5 …(written for our Vietnam Vets)
- Rendezvous With Destiny
- Garrison at Goliad
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 3: WAIT of the WORLD
- DAVID!
- Time to Take Back the Knights (aka, The Chosen)
- from STORMWORKS Chapters 5:8, WRITINGS on the WALL
- MUSASHI
- Kakehashi: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, a Documentary in Music
- God Bless America
- Furusato
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 13: Whispers on the Wind
- In Einem Anderen Licht
- LAST WORLD STANDING, a Visually Scored Work using PhotoRHYTHM™ & VISAReel™
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 21: WON WAY
- Despite All Else
- Here We Stand
- “Despite All Else… Here We Stand” (for Band & Heavy Metal)
- Lullaby
- Voice for the Silent
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 55: WAY of the WANDERER
- In the Darkest Darkness
- Arland D. Williams, Anthem for the Souls You've Never Heard
- Forever Strong, a Tribute to the USS Indianapolis
- Eternal Father, Strong to Save
- MIDWAY, Main Theme
- Veteran (though this work has not been recorded)
- from STORMWORKS Chapter 89: Worlds Within the World
- A Requiem of Two Poems
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