About the Work

Where Sky Meets Sea seeks to explore our dreams both the individual and collective, old and new, human and divine, and examines the place where all of those dreams meet. This horizon, this meeting place of dreams, may simply be our fanciful aspirations, or it may be, for some of us, a tangible and very real promise. Wherever this horizon exists for you, may this provide new perspective both on the present moment and the futures we dare to create.

Allow an ebb and flow of rubato throughout, hence the range of tempi given for portions of the work. This fluidity should be paired with the ocean-like dynamic swells introduced in the beginning. Keep forward motion while maintaining the legato of the piece until the broad refrain of mm. 32-36. Through harmonic shifts, echoed phrases, and rhythmic variation, this piece seeks to musically present the text's depiction of the grand, yet mystified path we take in following our dreams.

-Blake