Happy Birthday, Dad

Today would have been my father's, Thomas Gordon Bice Jr., 65th birthday.  Unfortunately he passed away back in 1993, just before my senior year in high school.  In 1999 I completed my third composition.  This was a piece for wind ensemble entitled, Homage.  This was my first attempt, and a pretty successful one, at writing a large ensemble piece.  Homage was composed in the memory of my father.  In honor of this day I am thinking that I will listen to both performances I have had of Homage.  A small tribute to a man who still has a profound impact on my life.