The world premiere of 'Revolver' by Robert Maggio was a winner, a five-movement piece inspired by Jim Jarmusch's film 'Dead Man.' Its first three movements ranged from concert band flourshes to a tuba-horn dialogue over softly treading drums to a fast ostinato in the horn under an array of jazzy rhythms.

But the final two movements transcended that: a slow dead march gradually gaining momentum in both dynamics and tempo as a satisfying, arching crescendo, then closing with a muted conversation in which rhythmic and elemental intervallic figures were passed around the ensemble.

The drums eventually overpowered the talk, only to drop out and end pretty much as it started.