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Inter Alia, North Carolina Trees
for soprano and orchestra
music by David Kirkland Garner, poetry by Ishion Hutchinson
Commissioned by Wake Forest University and University of North Carolina School of the Arts with special thanks to Maestro J. Aaron Hardwick
Premiere performance by Jodi Burns, soprano and J. Aaron Hardwick, conductor with the Wake Forest University Symphony Orchestra and the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra on October 24, 2025 at Wake Forest University
I. Prelude
II. Willow oaks melting
III. Appalachia of the mind
IV. The haptic wave
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