Upon all the living and the dead - for chamber orchestra by Zachary James Ritter published on 2018-02-16T23:54:07Z Upon all the living and the dead addresses loss of loved ones before their time, a deep emotional trauma, and how the composer learned to move through it. The death of those that are so important to us leaves us with a sense of loss—not just of that person, but of what they could have been, a sort of stolen good. The text and the piece overall are both based on the idea that it does not have to be interpreted as a loss. Instead, we must consider what they brought to the world while they were still in it, how it affected those around them, and how that good ripples out into the cosmos, long after any of us will be here to see it. (Three movements I. silver and dark, II. sleepily the flakes, III. thickly drifted) Genre Classical