Duration: 4' ca.

Composed in 2025

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Premiered on February 28, 2025 by the South Carolina Brass Band – J.D. Shaw, Bandmaster

 

The opening motive heard in Regal Thoughts came to me during a night of incredible boredom. In high school, my first job was working for my local Regal Cinemas movie theater. I would have to stand at a front podium in the lobby and mindlessly tear moviegoers’ tickets in half; on week nights, the crowd was inevitably excruciatingly slow, and all I had to entertain myself was my thoughts. This tune spawned in my mind amidst the background noise of the popcorn burners, the thundering bass from the theaters, and the endlessly looping advertisements on the TVs. I turned it into a piece for orchestra before having taken any composition lessons in college and have since reworked it into the much more idiomatic piece it is today.