"Shenandoah" for Wind Ensemble | Raritan Wind Symphony | By Joe Marta

The inspiration for this piece came to me when I was on a hiking adventure this past summer. I unfortunately read a map wrong, and wound up being lost deep into woods. I knew that many of the streams in the mountains ran into the lake near where I was staying. As I was following the stream, it lead into bigger and wider sections, and some smaller and softer parts. I wanted the traditional Shenandoah theme to represent the stream, and to
the variations be each part of the river, until we finally end back up at home.