This week’s musical selection is a quirky orchestral two-step, featuring a solo woodwinds and that most celebrated of melodic instruments, the tuba.

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	Sneak Away

This is one of a series of orchestral cues I wrote for an interactive computer adventure called The Penguin Who Wouldn’t Swim. As the project title suggests, the score has a colorful once-upon-a-time sort of flavoring to it. This particular cue leans towards the action/adventure side of things, though gentler motifs for individual characters do crop up periodically as well.

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	The Berg Breaks

Enough with the orchestra. I am frequently told; What we really want to know is: can you play the kazoo? As this week’s cue demonstrates, the incontrovertible answer to that question is no. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this theme for a 2006 video by the comedic duo The Stagebenders.

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	Stage Bending

This is the third in the series of aerial action/adventure music cues drawn from my score for the video game Jane’s Attack Squadron. The french horns introduce a heroic main theme (I know, quite an unheard-of thing for that particular instrument) and several other motifs follow in a kind of whirlwind pastiche.

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	Adventure In The Skies

A companion piece to last installment’s aerial adventure music, this week’s selection continues the spirit of high-energy derring-do and takes it up a notch. Almost a medley, this cue presents a fast-paced succession of themes and melodic fragments that intercut and play off one another.   (An alternate title might be “how to make your brass players’ lips bleed”.)

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	Dogfight In The Skies

A component of my score for the video game Jane’s Attack Squadron, this week’s selection is fast-paced orchestral adventure music with some thematic motifs dropped in hither and yon. It’s meant to evoke the derring-do of old World War 2 films, as well as the breakneck rush of flying a bomber into a dogfight. (Or so I’ve heard. Haven’t tried it myself!)

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	Patrolling The Skies