Zegiel, Evan - Tapestry

Written for Trumpet, tuba, and heavy metal band (fixed media) During my travels across the United States, Canada, and Japan in 2024, I was inspired by something I perceived in nearly every city I visited. I observed that people in these places were so very similar to each other. That is to say, I experienced what can only be described as the fundamental kinship which we all share. I truly witnessed every end of the spectrum in terms of wealth disparities, access to clean water and nutritious food, housing availability, and so on. In every city, though, one could feel that will to live, that most instinctual of impulses inherent in all living beings. We are all humans, sharing this planet with each other and with the many other species which call it home. The title Tapestry pays homage to this web of life, of which we are a strand. The music weaves in and out of different emotional states. At times anxious, others fierce and triumphant, we humans find ourselves surfing these emotional w