“The World of Yesterday” for Tuba Trio (2020).

Inspired by “Die Welt von Gestern” by Stefan Zweig, read in anticipation of a recent trip to Vienna just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Europe. Although the theme of everything changing rapidly, and a new world “becoming” was something that I could only abstractly relate to when I started reading the book and took the trip, only a few months later I can relate to it more viscerally now that we are living through such a significant change.

Here it is performed with proper social distancing: