Written for Saxophone Quartet, Four Settings was composed in the summer of 2017. The music in each of the movements is loosely derived from the titles which evoke a scene in and around an old-growth forest. The many soloistic passages are distributed throughout the quartet and are designed to exploit the unique timbres that each saxophone provides even in the extremes of its range. This was premiered by the U.S. Army Band's (Pershing's Own) Saxophone Quartet at the U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium in January 2019.
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