Forty reasons to be cheerful: festive fanfare for orchestra (2013)

Forty Reasons to be Cheerful was commissioned to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the Adelaide Festival Centre, hence the title. Its sub-title – Festival Fanfare – gives the game away. Joyously upbeat, Copland-esque brass and woodwind, strings pizzicato at first in support of the snare drum, building to a climax midway, followed by a more introspective section, leading into the final celebratory surge.