Awaken! is a powerful musical exploration of growth, resilience, and self-discovery. Commissioned by the University of Missouri, this piece charts the journey of confronting shadows and integrating life lessons, and inviting listeners to awaken their fullest potential.
Being awake in this sleepy world takes diligence. Staying centered takespractice and regular maintenance. Each time we go deeper, new awarenessbrings new challenges from old energy, seeking to move. After we become awareof growthpoints, ignoring them brings them up louder and with morepersistence, until we face them down, move through them, and integrate ourlessons. Awaken is about life in Earth School, and growing wiser, and facing ourdemons and shadows, to become more self-actualized. Performance notes:10ths in the piano, that cannot be played together should be played in whateverway best fits the pianist�s hands. Pedal freely except where specificallyindicated.Awaken! is recorded on the CD Voices of Air , Albany Records, TROY 1842.
