When Your Art is Smarter Than You: A memoriam for Parkland

By |2018-02-19T12:10:33+00:00February 18th, 2018|Hey, What's New?, Let's Pretend I'm a Philosopher, Real Talk, The Composer Life|

Last night I had the pleasure of revisiting one of my favorite older pieces in concert, Epics and Heroes. When I say "older pieces," I mean that I wrote this as an undergraduate in college eleven years ago, and while many of the works in my portfolio from that time have fallen by the wayside, this one has stuck around. It's a piece that (I hope I can make this make sense...) still sounds like me, talks like me, and acts like me, no matter how much my sound and style have evolved since then. This piece has a strange—and [...]