for Chamber Orchestra

Composed for a virtuoso chamber orchestra, this symphony paints the majestic landscape in which I grew up: the vast and serene Chesapeake Bay as settled by Europeans in 1634, the powerful Potomac River meandering through the mountains of Western Maryland before tumbling over enormous rock formations outside Washington D.C. The final movement is an orchestral tour de force imitating the sounds of industrialization that transformed the great City of Baltimore into a 19th-century powerhouse of iron production, railroad building, and international shipping.

1. Great Waters of the Chesapeake

2. Natives of the Potomac

3. The Coming of Steam