“The Feeling of Coming Home is a percussion octet (also written as a sextet) written in the summer of 2017. The piece can be described as the harmonic equivalent of dipping one’s fingers into cans of paint and smearing all of the colors onto an empty easel. By setting this color palette with a metric grid that slowly becomes transparent over several repetitions of an eight-bar melody, the piece intends to match the feeling one may find upon a long-awaited return to the place they call home.”

Join the many percussion ensembles around the world that have enjoyed this piece of music, still in demand and highly regarded seven years after its PASIC 2017 premiere! (Link to all known performances of The Feeling of Coming Home will be available soon. If you or your ensemble want to be featured on this list, drop me a line!)

***Great news for Texas educators: The Feeling of Coming Home is listed Grade 1 in the Texas PML (Prescribed Music List)!***

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Percussion Octet (or Sextet)

Premiered at PASIC 2017 by the Eastman Percussion Ensemble

Length: ca. 6 minutes

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