as the garden bows

2.2.2.2/2.2.2/timp.2 perc/hp.pno/str | duration 7'

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This piece was premiered by the University of Michigan

Symphonic Orchestra in February 2024.

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program note:

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the verb "to bow" is derived of the old

english word "to bend," and serves us

in many ways:

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1. to cease from resistance; to submit

2. to bend the body in revernece

3. to crush with heavy burden

4. to bend into a curve

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consider a garden bent into a curve;

consider a garden growing on after we're gone.

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this piece considers a garden's

inevitable bow towards, and change through,

the weight of time.