Based on a earlier piece for string quartet, Elegy was written for the Bay Brass in 2009.  I composed the original version at the request of Barry Jekowsky, Music Director and founder of the Walnut Creek-based California Symphony, in memory of our friend Dr. Stanton Schwartz who was an avid supporter of the orchestra for which I had the great honor of serving as Young American Composer-in-Residence from 1996-1999. I would like to thank Robert Ward, composer and hornist in the group, for his invaluable expertise and advice in this arrangement.

−Kevin Puts

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