Rushmore

A brooding, mystical opening, representing the four great faces carved in stone gazing over the plains of America, introduces a broad melodic line that is meant to symbolize the inner strength and calm majesty represented by these four great Americans as guardians of our tradition and faith in the freedom of man. As this theme is developed, rising ever higher in the band's registers, echoes of the opening fanfares enter, leading to a combination of this theme together with America, The Beautiful, and bringing the work to a close in all the majesty and color of which the modern concert band is capable.