"My Symphony"

When I was 21 or 22, I came up with the idea to write a symphony about my favorite geometric shape, the rhombus. Compositionally, it was going to adhere to the structure of a three-act Aristotelian tragedy, chronicling the rise and fall of the rhombus. Title: “Flight of the Rhombus.” I thought it was a great idea, but not being a composer per se, and not having an orchestra at my disposal, it didn’t seem realistic. Also, the more I thought about it, was writing a symphony about a rhombus worth it? It seemed to be an idea better in the abstract. But something of the rhombus still stirred inside of me, so I wrote this classical piece with a little help from Louis B. Middleton. It’s called “Flight of the Rhombus” because I’m prob’ly never going to, for better or worse, realize that symphony, but for such a crazy idea, it’s pretty cool—I think—that I got even this far.