Christopher Tucker: Press & Reviews

Mark Records released a CD featuring my wind ensemble music on the Mark Masters label. The album features performances by the North Texas Wind Symphony, the Rutgers Wind Ensemble and the Southern Illinois at Edwardsville Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Migliaro Corporon, William Berz and John Bell, respectively.

I spent half-a-day in Commerce, TX taking the time to lecture the Wind Literature class about my music and the future of young band music.

It's official. Twilight in the Wilderness is on the Texas UIL Prescribed Music list at the grade 3 level. The work is published by Southern Music Company (800-284-5443).

The C. H. Yoe High School Wind Symphony (Cameron, TX), under the direction of Dan Holman, premiered Genyoesis! dedicated to 1937 C. H. Yoe High School graduate and organist Catherine Thomas.

Christopher Tucker's Winds of Enchantment was selected as one of Bandworld Magazine's Top 100 symphonic band works for the season 2004-05. The list is sponsored by the American Band College and the Western International Band Clinic.

The Coakley Middle School Symphonic Band (Harlingen, TX), under the direction of Joe and Barbara Figarelli, premiered Gulf Breezes at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

The Dallas Wind Symphony and Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony brass joined forces and performed Ceremonial Fanfare (on a theme of remembrance) in the magnificent lobby of the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. David Kehler conducted the performance.