Variations and Fugue for the Royal Crown

This is a piece written for a beginners group that is meant to feature the underused/played instruments in the orchestra. Variations on the normal theme from the beginning then ending on a canon of sorts kind of like Britten's "Young Person's Guide..." Performed a while back but unfortunately didn't get a recording or anything. 😞

The only thing I've heard of Britten is The Young People's Guide which was featured in the film Moonrise Kingdom, a cool film.  But this seems very appropriate for its stated goal. It has lots of drama with relatively straitforward harmonies and a good use of first inversion chords so that the bass players have something to do. And the persussion section. Really nice.