“CHOPSTAKOVICH“ - Jesse Sieff

*Sheet music now available: WEBSITE: (updated domain) IG: sieffmusic A piece for solo marching snare drum written by Jesse Sieff over the second movement (Allegro Molto) of the Symphony in C Minor, String Quartet No, 8, Op. 110 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Written with Shostakovich’s characteristically darker and dissonant style (and career history) in mind, I found it fitting to perform this piece for my audition with the USMC Drum & Bugle Corps. For me, the biggest challenge of this piece was not playing the notes, or adjusting rhythmic time to a chamber symphony with the most unforgiving instrument in the world - it was simply having the audacity to write over a legendary composer’s masterpiece. The caliber of Dimitri Shostakovich’s musical genius is something I profoundly respect, and my hopes are to share the influence of his music with others by expressing it as genuinely as possible though my instrument. For inquiries, requests, and more information, please visit . Thank you.