Migration was a finalist in the Virginia Band Directiors' National Competition and has been played by numerous bands throughout the United States. Score and parts are avilable from the composer.

 

Program Notes

I composed Migration in 1981 while a graduate composition student at Michigan State University. As the title implies, the piece, to my ear, conveys a sense of traveling from something familiar to somewhere new. That new location might be geographical, or a new emotional region we sometimes discover inside ourselves. And we get there through a mixture of struggle, anxiety anticipation and joy.