I once attended a clinic on music selection at TMEA by a prominent college director, perhaps Jerry Junkin...maybe James Keene...could've been Kevin Sedatole....you get the point...their biggest consideration when selecting music was "when you select one piece of music, you've chosen that piece over every other piece out there. Why?"

What does Steppes of Russia offer your band that no other piece on the list does? If you can answer that objectively, then press on!