Spring and Page

In 2021-22, I was teaching high school band and choir in Grand Rapids, Michigan in a particular neighborhood that was one of the rougher ones in the city. Despite being a bit of a rough place, the neighborhood still had a lively beauty to it, and I tried to capture that in Spring and Page. Inspiration from this piece comes from the Bach cello suites and the modern neo-soul chord progressions of Robert Glasper.