Composer’s Note:

Dream-Crossed Twilight (2019),a composition commissioned by theMaryland Chapter of theMusic Teachers National Association,was writtenformy friends and colleagues ofthe Left Bank Quartet. The title is a referenceto T. S. Eliots description of human existence inhis profound and movingpoem,Ash Wednesday. The work is in three contrasting movements.

I. Striving
II. Dreams
III. Spiro. Spero. (I breathe. I hope.)

The contemplative and mysterious inner movement contrasts with the two energetic outer movements, and the darkness of the first movement is dispelled by the luminous optimism of the finale.