Opening Tune is a new brilliant and festive work by Jean-François Michel, and it was specifically conceived as a brass band concert starter.

The dramatic effects commence with the very first measure of the initial moderato, when the percussion instruments create the atmosphere over underlying long and low pianissimo notes emanating from the basses.

Short tutti brass interventions then follow, along with some tutti cornet calls sounding from backstage, which serve as harbingers of an immine...