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What Dreams May Come

“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band proudly announces its 40th album release, "What Dreams May Come," featuring David Maslanka's monumental A Child's Garden of Dreams and Gustav Holst's Suite No. 1 in E-flat, as well as Steven Bryant's Suite Dreams and Omar Thomas' lively work Come Sunday. The recording is available on YouTube, streaming platforms and for digital download here.

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Tracks

1. Gustav Holst / edited by Colin Matthews: Suite No. 1 in E-flat, Opus 28, No. 1 

Chaconne
Intermezzo
March

2. Steven Bryant: Suite Dreams

3–7. David Maslanka: A Child's Garden of Dreams

3. There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell
4. A drunken woman falls into the water and comes out renewed and sober.
5. A horde of small animals frightens the dreamer. The animals increase to a tremendous size, and one of them devours the little girl.
6. A drop of water is seen as it appears when looked at through a microscope. The girl sees that the drop is full of tree branches. This portrays the origin of the world.
7. An ascent into heaven where pagan dances are being celebrated; and a descent into hell where angels are doing good deeds

8–9. Omar Thomas: Come Sunday

8. Testimony
9. Shout!