When the suggestion of a recording with the Huntington Brass Quintet came along, I noticed a great lacuna, namely that there was no work for the tuba and organ (I still have not found another original work for this combination). The present work, Dragons and Deeps, was composed for Randall Montgomery. He and organist Andrew Paul Holman played the premiere in Round Lake, New York, in the summer of 2001. In the score there is an excerpt from Psalm 148, 7 and 8. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and ye deeps; fire and hail, snow and ice, gales of wind obeying his voice! Morning Music was composed at the request of organist James David Christie and the Paramount Brass Quintet. The specifications called for a light-hearted work about ten minutes long, easy to rehearse, accessible to a wide variety of audiences and ending (in his words) with a “toe-tapper”. When the suggestion of a recording with the Huntington Brass Quintet came along, I noticed a great lacuna, namely that there was no work for the tuba and organ (I still have not found another original work for this combination). The present work, Dragons and Deeps, was composed for Randall Montgomery. He and organist Andrew Paul Holman played the premiere in Round Lake, New York, in the summer of 2001. In the score there is an excerpt from Psalm 148, 7 and 8. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and ye deeps; fire and hail, snow and ice, gales of wind obeying his voice! Morning Music was composed at the request of organist James David Christie and the Paramount Brass Quintet. The specifications called for a light-hearted work about ten minutes long, easy to rehearse, accessible to a wide variety of audiences and ending (in his words) with a “toe-tapper” When the suggestion of a recording with the Huntington Brass Quintet came along, I noticed a great lacuna, namely that there was no work for the tuba and organ (I still have not found another original work for this combination). The present work, Dragons and Deeps, was composed for Randall Montgomery. He and organist Andrew Paul Holman played the premiere in Round Lake, New York, in the summer of 2001. In the score there is an excerpt from Psalm 148, 7 and 8. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and ye deeps; fire and hail, snow and ice, gales of wind obeying his voice! Morning Music was composed at the request of organist James David Christie and the Paramount Brass Quintet. The specifications called for a light-hearted work about ten minutes long, easy to rehearse, accessible to a wide variety of audiences and ending (in his words) with a “toe-tapper”.