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Thanks for sharing these! Love hearing these unique insights into the process and the music.

Got invited to play it 2 years ago, but never ended up playing it. We played it for our spring concert (Played Trumpet 2). This was one of the best pieces I got to play during 2021-2022.

im playing it in my school band

What a coincidence! I’ll be conducting this piece for my conducting class next week! It's nice to have recent commentary from the composer herself! Loving studying the score!

Your music is great! Me and another composer are headed to Waterloo in a little under two weeks. CJT is performing one of his compositions. Are you interested in doing a podcast episode?

Hi Cait! I am a 7th Grade clarinet player in Edmond, Oklahoma, and I was the 1st chair clarinet in the CODA Regional Honor Band. We premiered The Journey Begins, the intro music to this! I just want you to know that I had so much fun playing your piece, and it was really cool getting to see you on FaceTime! Keep on making great music!

I love how your songs include complicated and interesting parts for the low woodwinds/brass section of the band. As a bari sax player, I always enjoy playing your pieces! 🥰🥰

Playing this song in grade 7 for band

Thank you so much for making this! It’s so delightful to hear the insight about the piece. Looking forward to the rest of the episodes!

Considering the very expensive microphones seen in the video, it's a great pity that the sound is from the video recorder. It's not that hard to synchronize the audio file with the video file, if there's a will to do it.

Shout out to Period 4😉👍

I played this for my spring concert as a tuba player it was fun

We just played this piece last Friday. Some people rushed parts but other than that, I think our performance was brilliant :)

What’s interesting is at 0:55 , the trumpets went up the octave. That is how it is written in the conductor score, but in trumpet it is written down an octave from what they played.

0:35

I played this for international music camp and am currently playing chasing sunlight for concert band (I play flute) your music is super fun to play!

I played this for international music camp and am currently playing chasing sunlight for concert band (I play flute) your music is super fun to play!

Just played this piece in my junior honours band. Absolutely beautiful. I found some parts difficult, but in the end, it worked out. I love how it seems upbeat at first but starts to become almost more emotional as it goes, especially at D. Everything was so amazing and you definitely deserve to be more well known. Keep it up, Cait!

Currently playing this in band at school

My local regional honor band is going to play this. I made the principal trombone chair. Looking forward to getting to know this piece. Looks fun!

alto saxophone is dead inside

My 7th grade band is also playing it! A beautiful piece. Must be a common choice for 7th grade band directors!

I do like this piece just picked it up for wind

I'm pretty sure my high school is gonna play this. I love the beautiful notes and the emotional rehearsal marks. I hope we can do you and this piece justice!

Beautiful piece, I'm playing this is grade 7 symphonic band :p

I love it

I love the callback to the first movement in the second!

That’s my Alma Mater! Go broncos!

Great piece, I hope it gets played more. Currently stuck in my head!

We were invited to work in this. We worked on it. We visited IU's performance. We did our performance of it. I cried with all the memories of our past year and time in band. The song was most beautiful. Love to be apart of it and this wonderful community. Great work. Go Brown County Eagles.

Absolutely amazing! 🙌🏼

My turn of playing in the honors band is this Friday, let’s hope it goes well ;v;

Love this so much - beautiful work as always! Congratulations, Cait!

That is so lovely Cait... Bravo. A really beautiful performance

Bravo Cait.....lovely work and a fine performance!

Beautiful! Love it Cait!!!

I love your music.

Lovely piece and just perfect for a new horizons group!

1:19 that's a cough right?

amazing

I have to play this for 7 the grade band

the bass drum player gets 1 note.

I played all 5 of the suite right before covid with sistema center in moncton and it’s amazing

I love this! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I remember playing this piece in an honor band I went to it was so beautiful and it great experience!

Beautiful!!

Awesome! Cait, I hadn't realized that this was the premiere. And how wonderful that it was commissioned by the part of the world I live in. Watching this and knowing the history is like a great uniting of awesome people I know in different places through music. Brava!

Beautiful Cait - so well put together!

Amazing performance! So nice to be a part of it and to be able to (virtually) play with familiar faces and colleagues 😊