Goodman, Todd - Dear Tomorrow

PROGRAM NOTESThe year 2020 was one of unique challenges. Together the world was in the midst of a global pandemic, fighting as one people to subdue and eradicate a microscopic enemy that none of us could actually see. Yet by ourselves we were all struggling in our own individualized way with an enemy that we could all very much feel. While one enemy could make us physically sick, the other made us feel as if the world had indeed come crashing down around us. Many of us went from having robust schedules of performances, commissions, and recordings, to a schedule of nothing in a matter of days. When the reality of the long-term effects of those lockdowns, quarantines, and mandated shut downs hit, the emotional effect was devastating—at least to me. Everything was cancelled. Everything that I was working toward as a composer was no longer, or, so it seemed at the time. It was extremely depressing and it put me into the longest dry period of my compositional career.It seemed like there was