World Winds

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... a concise but programmatic motion through the decades culminating in our current condition:

This music reflects on periods of mixed American expression within the context of the greater world. For the last half of the country's age, certain stretches of history can subjectively be summarized in sound. This music is influenced by and structured according to those stretches of history in a proportional nanosecond of 7 minutes. While this is a tightening of the overall timeline, the music is structured across 6 time periods (plus the current one) that delineate the start of certain presidential terms or groups of terms and their sociopolitical conditions that ensued. These periods could be interpreted in light of a graduated race to somewhere over 60 years, then 32 years, then 8 years+8 years+8 years+8 years+Now. 

The periods (and the sections of this music) ebb and flow between AND within themselves as impressions of mixed American expression: Sometimes progressing, sometimes regressing, but consistently conflicted and in reaction to the previous periods (accumulated) mixed American Expression.

The score preface outlines the periods as follows:

1901 - 1961: Rehearsal 1-43

Theodore Roosevelt - Dwight D. Eisenhower

1961 - 1993: Rehearsal 43-86

John F. Kennedy - George H. W. Bush

1993 - 2001: Rehearsal 86-116

William J. Clinton

2001 - 2009: Rehearsal 116-140

George W. Bush

2009 - 2017: Rehearsal 140-162

Barack Obama

2017 - 2025: Rehearsal 162-217

Donald Trump - Joseph R. Biden Jr.

2025 - A message of hope... with a warning: Rehearsal 217 - 225