Vicarious

For Wind Ensemble (Transcribed from the Orchestral Version)

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Recipient of the James E Croft Grant for Young and Emerging Wind Band Composers

Vicarious is about how my numb pessimism and bleak outlook on life as an adult was transformed by my son Oliver’s blissful experience of his own little life. This bleakness is harshly portrayed at the onset of the work and ultimately leads to a lamenting of the loss of my own carefree perspective of the world. My son's emergence leads to the energetic, joyful drive that ends the work.

This piece is a transcription of an orchestral work of the same name as a result of the 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association James E. Croft Grant for Young and Emerging Wind Band Composers.

This edition was engraved by Josh Trentadue.