Peaceful and evenly-paced. Piano and orchestra with lots of interplay between oboe, clarinet, English horn, and bassoon. Strings are here, too.
A sister composition titled ‘Northeast at Evening"‘ will be released here soon.
Writing these two pieces was an exercise in calm. Needed in these tormented times. Hope you feel at peace listening.
You can click the imae below to download your own copy.
February 2022
I wrote this composition to express my support for and solidarity with a free and democratic Ukraine.
You are welcome to download and share for personal use with the only restriction being that it may not be used as part of another work of audiovisual art without permission. I encourage you to share it, and to contact your government representatives to express your support for Ukraine and your opposition to the invasion of a sovereign country by the dictator tyrant Vladimir Putin.
The human voices are from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Tallinn as recorded by Orchestral Tools. The nightingale singing was recorded May 07 2009 near Muenster, Germany by Guido Gerding and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
My longest composition so far. I have been volunteering with the National Park Service doing some raptor monitoring, and have had flight on my mind a lot lately. I think some of the musical themes in "On A Rising Wind" reflect that.
The track photo is a composite of two of my photos with an falcon in the foreground and some nice scenery in Rocky Mountain National Park in the background.
This piece celebrates the Winter Solstice, the return of the Sun, a new year, and the look forward towards Spring. Audio previews are available on my music page.
Coming soon to iTunes/Apple Music and other digitial distribution channels.
