I'm going to take a completely different approach than.. well.. everyone here.

1.) The strange lydian modality and non-traditional chords in this piece didn't resonate with any of us either on first read, sorry to say. Part of our job and frankly, our duty as music educators is to help students explore great music and discover WHY it's great music. No kid likes Hindemith or Schuman either at first.

2.) We have to stop this. The more we continue to NOT program serious music because it might trigger some judge, the more this repertoire is going to vanish. It's already diminishing at a frightening rate in favor of "full, loud, everyone plays most of the time and has a 'fun' part" rather than objectively well-crafted music. YOU CANNOT PREDICT YOUR JUDGES. If your kids can handle it, you can play it in time, in tune, in tone and interpret it correctly, go for it and d**n the torpedoes.