July 2008
LudwigMasters Publications releases Somerset Overture. The publisher describes it as a "dazzling medley...exciting and serene."
May 2008

Sicut Incipiat (see article below) is performed at Yale's 307th commencement. Yale's web site features a streaming video of the event; the piece can be heard starting at approximately the 9:56 mark (simply drag the pointer at the bottom of the screen to that point).

Elizabeth's Farewell, a tone poem inspired by Arthur Miller's The Crucible, premieres at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada Flintridge, California. (Hear the performance.)
April 2008

Robert W. Parker was named the inaugural recipient of the Robert J. Flanagan Yale Bands Commissioning Endowment, a fund directed to the commissioning and premiering of music for concert band to ensure that the Yale Band’s exemplary and long-standing tradition of commissioning the worlds’ greatest composers will remain an active and important part of the program in perpetuity.

On April 4th, his composition, Sicut Incipiat ("Thus, let it begin"), was premiered by the Yale Concert Band, accompanied by Yale's mighty Newberry Memorial Organ, under the baton of Dr. Thomas C. Duffy.

Hear a recording of the premiere performance.

The American Chronicle features an article describing both the commision and the composition.

Sounds are in MP3 format, non-streaming, and average between 3 and 7 MB in size.

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