This arrangement is a milestone in my personal arranging history: my first really “good” arrangement. Or at least the first one that someone else recognized as good. After getting a few initial arrangements under my belt (which weren’t always good), I set my mind to the heartfelt, nostalgic ballad “Our Town” from the Pixar movie “Cars,” written by the inimitable Randy Newman and recorded by the incomparable James Taylor. I poured my heart and soul into the arrangement and gave it every bit of arranging skill I had at the time. Then I submitted it to the Barbershop Harmony Society as an application for the Lou Perry Arranging Scholarship to Harmony University. And I won! And they published it!  The experience I had at HU set me up for even more success as an arranger.