March for the Penguin Military
Price range: $49.50 through $58.50
Once upon a time there was a little girl who had trouble falling asleep at night. One day she received a stuffed, very fat baby penguin as a gift. Little did she know that this baby penguin was a little despot who idolized Napoleon. He wished to raise an army to defend the bed and the little girl from scary thoughts of all kinds. One by one the other stuffed penguins in her bed were recruited and given ranks, titles, jobs, and even pensions. The next year on her birthday, the penguins dressed in their finery and trumpeting the songs of their people, marched in her honor and declared the little girl their president. This is the music they played in their penguin parade in honor of their favorite person and for the glory of Penglandia (aka the bed they all lived in).
March for the Penguin Military was written in honor of the stuffed animals that helped the composer calm her bedtime anxiety as a child and to tell some of the stories that played in her head as she drifted off to sleep. It designed was an entry point for developing bands to experience a full Sousa style march in an accessible range.