Fortress - Frank Ticheli (Concert Band Grade 3)MANHATTAN BEACH MUSIC Raising the Standards of the American Concert Band and BANDS all Over the WORLD Exclusive Australian Distribution by Future Music Fortress was composed as a tribute to the composer's former band director, Robert Floyd of Richardson, Texas. Although Ticheli was already an international award winner, this was his first published work for concert band. The first 19 bars of Fortress are taken from the composer's piano score for a