Solo Works

This work is one of three works from Songs of Isolation, a project for solo cello aimed at illuminating important voices in this immensely challenging time across the globe.

"The second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these." Mark 12:31 NLT

Bill Traylor was born a slave in Alabama in 1853 and died in 1949. He lived long enough to see the United States of America go through many social and political changes. He was an eyewitness to the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the Great Migration.

This piece represents the desire to get out and MOVE - an imaginary syncopated joyride that moves with enery and forward motion.