Loss

Loss was written in November 2020. I was standing in my classroom, a 1600 sq. ft. room designed for the purpose of a school music program. As we know, much of the music died that year. Instead of the sound of musical instruments playing, my classroom was largely filled with the sound of silence. A deafening silence. The material for this composition came to me quickly. My heart longed for a song, the the music for this work wrote itself int he span of three days. The original was 11 minutes, some proofreading cut it down closer to 8. Loss starts as softly as it ends, on a unison C written with the softest of dynamics. aAs circumstances would have it, the music starts and ends unresolved. The music grows gradually to the height of emotion at measure 75. I hope you could feel the anguish and weight of emotion I tried to capture with the sonic landscape. My wish is this music music gives you something that is hard to capture with words.