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Duration: 7 mins
Instrumentation: String Ensemble: (3.3.2.2.1), may be expanded proportionally
Premiere: March 9, 2016 at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, England by Project Instrumental

Program Notes:

When I started working on the piece that eventually became Thoughts of Carolina, I couldn’t get the song, Carolina in my Mind out of my head. One of the songs James Taylor wrote while living and working in the UK, the lyrics are a nostalgic look at someone’s home. Thoughts of Carolina was the first work I wrote after moving from the US to the UK. Throughout the work, a melodic fragment, reminiscent of an American folk song, appears. Although I did live in North Carolina for a brief time in the summer of 2008, the work is an exploration of nostalgia for home, a remembrance of our individual ‘Carolina’.

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