“Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner — what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.”
Thermals collects remastered composition demos from just before the pandemic, leading into the 2020 American Presidential election, through the summer of 2022 and the US Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision. This group of pieces represents an attempt on my part to make sense of the world, nothing else. Following the completion of my brass quintet in the fall of 2022, my focus began to shift away from writing about current events. Please share. Thanks…more to come.