Inspired by the ornamental designs found in Arabic and Moorish decoration, the music reflects the florid ornamentation with flowing melodies and motifs that are sinuous, spiraling, and undulating. It seeks
In Memoriam: Turn Round, O My Soul, To Your Rest is a eulogy and elegy remembering the friends and loves that have passed through our lives. Strings evoke the feelings that words cannot express
This three-movement original work for full orchestra includes intense, programmatic themes. "Cloak of Darkness" depicts the eerie hour just before dawn, wherein chromatic whirlwinds of sound and evocative
Barbara Harbach's Symphony No. 7 O Pioneers! was adapted from her opera, O Pioneers! An American Opera, based on Willa Cather's lyrical novel of tragedy and transformation. In 2014,
Recitative and Aria for Orchestra (2017) are two movements inspired by the life of Edwin Booth (1833-1893), the American actor who was also the older brother of the infamous John Wilkes Booth.
Based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (1850), Symphony No. 8 contains musical portraits of the three main characters: Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur