A Note From the Composer:
There are times when I specifically remember where, when, and how a specific musical seed that eventually blossomed into a full piece was planted, and there are other times where I have no memory of it at all. For Welcome To A New Age, I remember it quite well: It was my freshman year of college, and I was sitting up in a practice room on the third floor of our music building at Hardin-Simmons University. I don’t know what possessed me to do this, but I just started playing loud staccato notes in the left hand at the octave (D minor had newly become my favorite key, so that was where I naturally started). That’s all it took for it to, over the next few months, evolve into a large, bombastic journey of non-stop action. I entered it into a contest for the Austin Symphony but it was not selected as a winner. Nonetheless, I was happy to have completed a new large orchestral piece.The title came to be simply from what I felt the music was trying to say once I was done with it.
