Sneak Attack!

sneak attack by superbomba, from Flickr

Richard Saucedo, composer of this piece, is Director of Bands at Carmel High School in Indiana. This is a school with an extremely active instrumental music department.  He's also a staff composer at music publisher Hal Leonard and has written many pieces for marching and concert bands.  Here's a link to his bio on his publisher's website.

There don't seem to be any videos of bands playing Sneak Attack! on YouTube, yet.  Here's a link to the audio file provided by the publisher, performed by professional musicians.

This piece contains a musical term I was not familiar with:  sub.  I took a look online, and found a couple of glossaries of musical terms which clued me in to the meaning of this term, short for subito.  In case you want to look up sub. or any other musical term,  you'll find links to these two glossaries in the sidebar on the blog page (if you're reading this in an email, just click on the title, and that will take you to the blog page).

Edited on April 17, 2012:  This post is the most popular of any on the blog so far.  This might mean that other bands are performing Sneak Attack! and looking for info about it.  So I went back to YouTube, and found a few new examples of bands performing this piece.

Here's a high school band:




This one is labelled as an all-city band, maybe a sort of mass band made up of smaller groups.