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Program Notes This version of Rosa de Sal for trumpet and orchestra is an arrangement of my original setting for soprano and piano of Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17 in the original Spanish. It conjures up the dark, evocative language of Neruda, that touches on the unspoken and unnamable aspects of love, using the constantly shifting … Read more
Program Notes This miniature for trumpet takes its name from the landform you see in the distance in the video above. Pedernal is an iconic mesa outside of Santa Fe, near Ghost Ranch — the home and studio of American painter Georgia O’Keefe. I have visited Pedernal many times in my life — it is … Read more
Program Notes This piece was originally written for violin and piano. These are the program notes for the original work. When writing this piece, to be based upon Indian folksong, I cast a wide net for source material – I scoured the internet and my large collection of Indian music, listening to everything from Bengali … Read more
Program Notes (Original notes from 2010) For some reason, I had always assumed that seamlessness was the goal in the creation of music. And on the contrary, I’ve always felt gaping seams in my own music that, no matter how many times I work and rework, are still stubbornly audible. It occurred to me recently … Read more