Run Before You Walk

ensemble 2.2.2.2, 1.1.1.1, timp, perc, harp, strings

written summer 2018

duration 8 minutes

read July 20 2018, Lorimer Chapel, Waterville, ME by Dean Whiteside and the Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra

Run Before You Walk is a rhythmic, optimistic, and buoyant piece dedicated to the memory of my late grandfather, whose boundless energy and devotion to education inspired all who met him - and then some.