Manifestos [HL:4008518]

Finalist, 2020 Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Award; Finalist, 2019 National Band Association William D. Revelli Composition Contest

Manifestos (2019) was commissioned by the wind bands of the Big 12 Conference including Texas Christian University and Bobby Francis, Iowa State University and Michael Golemo, University of Texas at Austin and Jerry Junkin, Texas Tech University and Sarah McKoin, Oklahoma State University and Joseph Missal, The University of Kansas and Paul Popiel, University of Oklahoma and Shanti Simon, West Virginia University and�Scott Tobias, Kansas State University and Frank Tracz and Baylor University and Eric Wilson.A three-movement work, Manifestos finds primary inspiration in the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement known as Futurism. According to the composer, “I first encountered the artwork in my doctorate when taking a class called 'Music in Modernist Movements' taught by the great Jane Fulcher. Futurism, which started in Italy, is associated with technology, speed and violence.” What made the Futurists (and other avant-gardes) prominent in their time was the proliferation of their manifestos, the widely circulated proclamations to the world on how they sought to completely abandon and obliterate all of Italy's storied artistic past and shape a new world order. The Futurists envisioned a world that celebrated the wonders of dynamism, motion, youth, the vibrancy of the urban city, the industry of factories, and the various technological achievements of modern man, primarily the automobile and the airplane. The movement's founder, Filippo Marinetti, announced the birth of Futurism with a manifesto published on February 20, 1909.