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(BMI) Ralph N. Jackson commission. The most dazzling place I knew as a kid was my grandparents' house in Nkorthern Indiana's Dune Acres, on the south shore of Lake Michigan. With architectural characteristics of Bauhaus and the International Style, the house was supreme funkytown: cool angles everywhere, half-walls, a bewindowed breakfast nook that jetted out over trees, and the \"yard\" of dunes and beach. I wrote my first music in Dune Acres, and the house itself ignited my love and study of modern architecture. Our family visited there most summers of my childhood, and when the weather held we spent long lazy mornings at the lake. After lunch, while others napped, I snuck outside and made up songs, sang with the crickets, waves and trees. My grandparents and parents are no longer living, and the music of \u003cem\u003eDune Acres\u003c\/em\u003e will serve as a thank-you note to them and the magnificence of our Great Lakes. 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The blocky chords return, as do the opening rhythms, leading up to a smashing end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOrchestra Instrumentation: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e3.2.2.2\/4.3.3.1\/timp.3 perc\/str\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOrchestral performance parts are available via rental.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/justatheorypress.com\/pages\/rental-quote\" title=\"Just a Theory — Rental Quote\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick here for a rental quote.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tsDnUUclx1k?si=ocWNZRe6ItbEFDXA\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Just a Theory Press","offers":[{"title":"Full Score \/ Physical Delivery","offer_id":47958247801119,"sku":"JAT-121-024-FS","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Full Score \/ PDF Download","offer_id":47958247768351,"sku":"JAT-121-024-FSe","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/1586\/5887\/files\/Kuster_Moxie00Score-01.png?v=1711123610"},{"product_id":"pinery-park","title":"Pinery Park","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePinery Park,\u003c\/em\u003e Kristin Kuster (2019) 28'\u003cbr\u003efor solo trumpet and symphonic wind ensemble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePinery Park\u003c\/em\u003e is written for trumpet soloist William Lucas. A four-movement work, Pinery Park showcases the multi-faceted sounds and styles of varied trumpets, as well as my love of the Pinery Provincial Park on the shore of Lake Huron in Ontario. While the solo trumpet parts are tailored to highlight Lucas’s work as a crossover artist (a decades-long member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s trumpet section, Lucas is also an assistant professor in the Jazz Department of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre \u0026amp; Dance), Pinery Park can be presented with multiple soloists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePinery Provincial Park is a magical place. It is gorgeous. It has about 6 miles of shoreline on Lake Huron, with extremely rare ecosystems. It is also home to over 300 bird species. There are 10 walking\/hiking trails, a beautifully-kept bike trail, and ski and snow-shoeing trails for the winter months. There are camping sites that snuggle up to the base of the dunes, and one can simply pop over a dune and spend the day on the breathtaking beach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMembership dues for the Friends of the Pinery organization go to preserving the park. The park has naturalists on hand to educate visitors on the varied ecosystems within the park, as well as an app with maps, resources, etc. My favorite page on the app is “Dynamic Dunes,” which has graphics illustrating the evolution and ecology of the park’s beaches. It details how the shoreline of the Pinery is a landscape that is always changing. While the Pinery usually gains sand each year, occasionally the levels of Lake Huron have risen and eroded material away: in some periods the Pinery grows; in others it gives back some of its sand to the lake. 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At the base of one case are two jade objects: a bi disc and a cong tube. The forms of the bi (circle) and cong (square) date back to the Stone Age in China; yet their original meaning, names, and functions are unknown. They gained importance in the Han dynasty, where they were at the core of the earliest Chinese books on philosophy, metaphysics, and cosmology. In the Zhou Li (Book of Rites), an ancient book compiled in the Zhou dynasty and amended in the Han dynasty, the cong is described as a symbol of earth, and the bi as a symbol of sky, or after world. The nephrite jade used by the ancient Chinese was extremely hard, and had to be worn down with an abrasive paste to achieve the desired shape and decoration. 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My coming upon the two jade bi and cong objects at the UMMA evoked a compelling sense of two-ness: two objects, symbols of earth and sky; mother and father; the lives and deaths of my parents; our UofM students experiencing a foreign culture, and the gift from that culture of listening to our students perform; and esteemed UM Alumnus, violinist Xiang Gao, coupled with our symphony band.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe music of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTwo Jades\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is comprised of three sections, fast-slow-fast. The first section is my imagined journey of a jade rock being intensely, frenetically reshaped as it moves with the flow of a river. In the slower second section, I imagine the jade rock being non-passing, still, and carved with delicate, intricate ornamentation. 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