New post, new piece.

A couple of weeks ago I began to write my second piece of the term. It is for trombone quartet and is meant to be an overture to a story that I've come up with about pain and healing. The story is about a man who has a deep love and respect for the ocean who decides to set off one day on a boat and live on the water. After a while, a storm picks up and destroys his boat leaving him clinging to a piece of debris. At this point he has lost his love for the sea and feels deceived and betrayed. Over time though, he comes to peace realizing that it's not the fault of the sea, because it has a life of its own, so to speak. He realizes that nothing is permanent and that when a storm comes along the only way to weather it is to have the right mindset and to accept that there is no changing the past and move on. Upon realizing this, his love and respect for the sea returns and he decides to give himself to it by letting go of the debris and drowning himself in it.

It's a bit of a dark story but I think that there is a lot of beauty and a lot of truth in its darkness. I guess the trick for me is to capture that in music.