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and this too, shall pass
JaRon Brown

“and this too, shall pass” is commissioned by Nova Linea Musica (NLM), the latest addition to Chicago’s new-music scene, a music creation engine already busy generating new string music as its moniker affirms. Its ambition, though, is far more crucial to classical music’s ability to thrive in the years to come: to etch new connections between performers, composers, and listeners while closing the distances between them. 

This musical work is written to be performed by GRAMMY award winning Third Coast Percussion. For more than twenty years, Third Coast Percussion has performed over a thousand concerts around the world and at home in Chicago. TCP educates thousands of students of all ages each year, and has commissioned over 100 new works from composers including Zakir Hussain, Jessie Montgomery, Philip Glass, Clarice Assad, Danny Elfman, Jlin, Tigran Hamasyan, Augusta Read Thomas, Devonté Hynes, Missy Mazzoli, Ivan Trevino, Tyondai Braxton, and leading early career composers through their annual Currents Creative Partnership.The mission of Third Coast Percussion is to inspire and educate through the creation of exciting and unexpected musical experiences. Third Coast Percussion's vision is a world-wide audience that embraces creativity, curiosity, and community through music. 

I wanted to create this work to honor my great uncle Robert "Robbie" Brown. He was most recently diagnosed with dementia and being with him during this time has been a mix of emotions and triumph. What has remained so assuring during these moments is that even though his day to day experiences are always ever-changing, and each new day brings new adversities, he has continued to be so spirited and himself. He has always been so funny and lively, and getting the opportunity to be this close with him at this time is comforting. I feel immensely blessed and lucky to truly have a loving village behind him that is dedicated to keeping as much normalcy in his life while we all try to navigate this. 

I chose to create a musical work that has depth, complexity, feel darkly beautiful, unsettling, and full of wonder and optimism, simply as a means to come and go in a shared musical space. I hope that a musical ear worm will be imprinted and leave with the you after hearing/playing this work, but if not, that is also the point of this piece too. Memories are sometimes so sneakily fleeing from us; and anytime we recall those moments we never truly remember those experiences as they once were. This is a representation of what I think that feels like for me in my current personhood through that lens. 

JB

and this too, shall pass
JaRon Brown

“and this too, shall pass” is commissioned by Nova Linea Musica (NLM), the latest addition to Chicago’s new-music scene, a music creation engine already busy generating new string music as its moniker affirms. Its ambition, though, is far more crucial to classical music’s ability to thrive in the years to come: to etch new connections between performers, composers, and listeners while closing the distances between them. 

This musical work is written to be performed by GRAMMY award winning Third Coast Percussion. For more than twenty years, Third Coast Percussion has performed over a thousand concerts around the world and at home in Chicago. TCP educates thousands of students of all ages each year, and has commissioned over 100 new works from composers including Zakir Hussain, Jessie Montgomery, Philip Glass, Clarice Assad, Danny Elfman, Jlin, Tigran Hamasyan, Augusta Read Thomas, Devonté Hynes, Missy Mazzoli, Ivan Trevino, Tyondai Braxton, and leading early career composers through their annual Currents Creative Partnership.The mission of Third Coast Percussion is to inspire and educate through the creation of exciting and unexpected musical experiences. Third Coast Percussion's vision is a world-wide audience that embraces creativity, curiosity, and community through music. 

I wanted to create this work to honor my great uncle Robert "Robbie" Brown. He was most recently diagnosed with dementia and being with him during this time has been a mix of emotions and triumph. What has remained so assuring during these moments is that even though his day to day experiences are always ever-changing, and each new day brings new adversities, he has continued to be so spirited and himself. He has always been so funny and lively, and getting the opportunity to be this close with him at this time is comforting. I feel immensely blessed and lucky to truly have a loving village behind him that is dedicated to keeping as much normalcy in his life while we all try to navigate this. 

I chose to create a musical work that has depth, complexity, feel darkly beautiful, unsettling, and full of wonder and optimism, simply as a means to come and go in a shared musical space. I hope that a musical ear worm will be imprinted and leave with the you after hearing/playing this work, but if not, that is also the point of this piece too. Memories are sometimes so sneakily fleeing from us; and anytime we recall those moments we never truly remember those experiences as they once were. This is a representation of what I think that feels like for me in my current personhood through that lens. 

JB