Changes/Transitions (2020)

for Brass and Percussion

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Composed July 2020

Commissioned by the musicians of the Utah Symphony Orchestra

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3 Minutes

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Premiere:

Utah Symphony Orchestra; Thierry Fischer conducting - September 24, 25 & 26, 2020

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Program Note:

Changes/Transitions is a reflection on where we have been and where we are going in life before, during, and onwards for Black Lives Matter.

 

While it is a celebration of the progress we have made thus far, it is also meant to be a hard look at real struggle. Real struggle that has come to the culmination of change and transition in the history of a nation that is still being written.

 

“What can we do now to get to where we have to be?”