About Nutcracker Suite Dreams: “Over the years, I’ve heard quite a few collections like this - Christmas music in original arrangements for brass - including some by top groups like London Brass. This is the first one that I thoroughly enjoyed and can heartily recommend.”
- American Record Guide - Kilpatrick
November/December 2002

“It was the kind of foggy day that caused Santa to call on the services of Rudolph. But even that reindeer‘s nose could not have outshone the brightness of Clarion Brass‘s Candlelight Christmas Concert at St. John‘s Cathedral on Sunday afternoon. Just when many of us have reached the Scroogelike point in the season where we would not like to hear another Christmas carol, composer-arranger William Berry produced a program of Christmas music
that made us old grouches know how wrong we are. Berry put together a selection of new Christmas compositions and new arrangements of old songs (some of them very old)
that showed the vitality, tenderness and humor of Christmas music. . . . Berry‘s arrangements sport a catchy, often quirky, rhythmic gait, textures that make the best of the richness of a mixed brass ensemble, and harmonies that give the tune just enough of a twist to make even the hardened listener smile.”
- Travis Rivers
Spokane Spokesman-Review, 2003