Everything Beautiful

Everything Beautiful, for full orchestra Instrumentation: 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.3 perc/pno/strings Everything Beautiful (2025) sonically explores the following quote by Herman Melville: "Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic." The work seeks beautiful moments in the small and intimate as well as the intense and bombastic, demonstrating that beauty manifests in myriad forms. Tender solo passages contrast with tutti grandeur in a conversation of strength versus power, what it might mean to impose beauty, and how we can illuminate the magic that bestows it in our everyday lives. Everything Beautiful was commissioned by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra in celebration of their 30th season. Many thanks to Kris Morron, Kim Deichler, the CYO team, and CYO's intrepid players for their steadfast belief in the power of new music and for premiering this work.