what you leave behind, what pulls you away
Listen:
Instrumentation:
3333/4331/3 perc+timp/strings
Premiered:
Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, Octavio Mas Arocas, conductor
June 6, 2014 at Lawrence Memorial Chapel, Appleton, WI.
Additional reading by the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra July 27, 2016
About:
Although this piece wasn’t composed programmatically, it is a reflection on my time at Lawrence University. Inspired by life in transition, this work evokes the excitement and afflictions that accompany moving on and the tension and indecisiveness between two worlds.