
To listen while following along with the score, click here: Hokkaido │ Brass Quintet │ Dr. Daniel Thrower (youtube.com)
Hokkaido, Op. 157, for brass quintet was completed on 3 Jun 2024. This piece was inspired during a United States Air Force jazz band concert throughout Hokkaido in May 2024. The concert program included the theme song from a popular TV show shot in Hokkaido titled “Kita No Kuni Kara” in which I played a verse on the flugelhorn with the passion I developed during my years playing flugel solos in the Nebraska Brass Band. The piece fittingly has similarities to “Sakura, Op. 154” which was composed only a month earlier. “Hokkaido” is a beautiful flugelhorn feature, sweet homage to the breathtakingly beautiful northern island of Japan, Hokkaido. Duration: 3:15.
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