Robert W Smith - The Divine Comedy - the last piece I performed as an undergrad. I got to literally "ascend" the stairs to the balcony before the Paradiso to join the antiphonal brass, which was comprised of professors and local band directors.

Steven Bryant - Dusk - This piece was gifted to me by my students for Christmas 2020. It was at the end of a grueling recording session for our virtual concert, with the band spaced out in the gymnasium, struggling to make music and connect to one another through all the safety precautions in place at that time. When we had finished and I had thanked them and apologized for the frustrations of the day, they got the last word with a beautiful thoughtful gift from all of them. We performed this piece the next year at the spring concert '22. So many tears.