Several of my compositions are the results of commissions; one such work, Seal and Covenant has already been mentioned. Other commissioned works are two band pieces, one chamber work, and my first symphony.

T. A. (Tom) Britton, Jr., commissioned me to write a march for band; it was to be a concert march, longer and more complex in form than the earlier marches I had written. At the time, Tom Britton's address in Montgomery, Alabama, was on Britton Lane, and I chose that address as the title of the march. Britton Lane was composed during the 1965-66 school year, and it was played for the first time by the University of Alabama High School Music Camp Band in May, 1966; it was performed subsequently by the University of Alabama "Million Dollar Band" in a spring concert. Two years later, Mr. Britton commissioned a second work in memory of his grandmother. This work, Introit and Alleluia, was composed during the 1967-68 school year and was played for the first time by the Robert E. Lee High School band in Montgomery; it was performed later by the UA band on its spring concert, 1969, conducted by the composer.

The chamber work, Sonata for Tuba and Piano, was an informal commission that resulted from a favorable response to Contrasts, an earlier work for trombone and piano performed at the Georgia State College Brass Symposium in the mid-1960s. The first movement of the tuba sonata was composed in 1968; the final two movements were composed in 1970, under the tutelage of Bernhard Heiden at Indiana University. The work was premiered at a student composition recital at IU.