KayDee21

Description: A colorful celebration of winter percussion & guard made up of my previously-drawn members of the ensemble.

Description: It's always a thrill when a musician discovers the instrument they really want to play, especially when the musician in question is a very excited octopus!

Description: Guard performers united on the floor to put on a show.

Description: A pair of skeletons share their eternal rest.

Description: A play on the Ash Wednesday "Remember that you are dust" meant to remind the viewer that everything is connected & that it can all be love in the end.

Description: A quotation from the stage play Zorba, referencing Niko's tale about impatiently causing a butterfly to emerge too soon from its chrysalis. Meant to be paired with the design for the previous line of the song.

Description: An octopus entangles a human skull, looking for food.

Description: A "sexy" Mr. Mint from a family favorite game

Description: The spirit Ariel guides the Duke's ship to its doom.

Description: A German graveyard is raided by a very cheerful ghoul named Helmut. With him, every day is Halloween!

Description: A pair of skeletons embraces in the grave.

Description: An octopus made out of growing flower vines.

Description: The smoke rising from a candle just after it's been blown out.

Description: The intertwined hands of Lord & Lady Macbeth, eternally stained with the blood of their crimes.

Description: A pair of skeletons cuddle in the grave.

Description: A personification of the feeling which comes the week before the end of a long semester, when you're just waiting for classes to end already.

Description: A quotation from the stage play Zorba, referencing Niko's tale about impatiently causing a butterfly to emerge too soon from its chrysalis. Meant to be paired with the design for the next line of the song.

Description: Based on a folktale from Europe in which St. Michael came down in form of a knight to save a city that was being held under siege by a ferocious dragon, & inspired by the eponymous piece for concert band.

Description: Inspired by a trip to the eponymous Californian mission, here is my interpretation of San Miguel Archangel, the Archangel Michael.

Description: An homage to one of my favorite books, by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master & Margarita

Description: In Russian folklore, some men & women can turn into birds without the slightest effort. I tried to capture the metamorphosis.

Description: A pair of fish checking out the worm on the hook better look out if they don't want to end up as someone's dinner!

Description: The incomparable Scheherazade telling one of her stories; design inspired by insets in illuminated texts.

Description: The Horn Line: Trombone

Description: There's always time for a nap!

Description: An odd young man, who perhaps came by his fish dishonestly (who can say); he may not be of this world.

Description: A musical pun

Description: The high voice of the brass family

Description: A reimagining of Da Vinci's Vitruvian man

Description: Loosely inspired by the tales of outlaws & hermits in the woods of Britain, an archer stands for a moment, enjoying the afternoon light in the trees during his travels.

Description: The marching equivalent of the french horn

Description: The thing to say when things go bump in the night

Description: The traditional mid-range voice of the brass family

Description: A dancer in blue

Description: A fantasy world of eternal winter, where some trees grow candles that light the long hours of night.

Description: Lancelot is the strongest, & perhaps the most forgiving, of Arthur's knights