An easy and enjoyable pre-grade 1 offering, you’ll want to program this new work by Timothy Johnson for your upcoming holiday concert. It makes a nice contrast to other Christmas fare, while serving well as a teaching piece for things like staccato and accented articulations, dynamic subtleties, simple slurred passages, and many other details that will help you raise your young band’s maturity level. Written with your developing musician’s success in mind, this is one you are sure to like.