Hasta’aadah
for wind ensemble
(2006)

(performed by University of Mary Washington Wind Ensemble and conducted by Craig Naylor)

A proposition to the process of group learning where the conductor gradually gives up his role in the performance of this work. As the presence of the conductor diminishes, each member of the large ensemble is allowed to recall the group sound. Time drifts, and all performers calmly lose their way…remembering…

A collective remembering of who they were while at the same time a re-imagining toward who they are expected to be