Music

2016 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska All-State Music Festival Program

2017 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska All-State Music Festival

2017 Solo & Ensemble Music Festival Program

2018 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Solo & Ensemble Music Festival Program

2019 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska All-State Music Festival

2019 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Solo & Ensemble Music Festival Program

Musician and independent author Michael Serour goes deep into the agony of a broken heart in his debut poetry book. Describing relationships and the struggle that comes with them, Serour welcomes you into the heart and soul of a man who has been hurt and does all he can to try and pull himself out of the darkness.

This is a musical composition of mine of a piano sonata (three movements) in the style of Mozart who was my favorite composer. Although it was composed many, many years ago, I gave it away in recent times to a dear Chinese friend named John with whom I became well acquainted in China.

This is only the soloists vocal part for the song. Please visit my bookstore if you are looking for the piano score for James Butt's arrangement of the sacred solo "All Praise To Thee, My God". The music of James Butt is used by churches whose musicians value craftsmanship in composition, and appreciated by the worshipers whose services are enhanced by his music.

The function of American Breakfast is to reflect on the transformation of an abnormal occurrence into a daily one. The 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando would have, at one time, challenged the assumptions once held dear about America’s tolerance and relative security. But now, the basic assumption is this: an American day will include gun violence. This is a piece about accepting the parameters of a forced American ritual, one in which we must partake, even if we succumb to numbness or deny its reality.