Mountain Fanfare is an aggressive, sharp, and fun instrumental fanfare first written for brass quintet, but was later expanded into this brass ensemble version. Featuring an articulate and biting opening, that gives way to a lyrical interlude, before ending with a return to its earlier vigorous material, Mountain Fanfare attempts to show the preverbal peaks and valleys of the ensemble. Thus creating an important, but distant, connection to the mountainous place it was written, Morgantown, WV.