From Nashville to Dalton
Music byRachel Fogarty
| Text byAaron Briggs
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From Nashville to Dalton is a song cycle setting of two poems, "Coil" and "Only Memory of a Family Vacation, Age 9", by the award-winning poet Aaron Briggs. The composer, struck by the simple beauty of the first poem, "Coil", created a stark, metallic ambience to describe the passing of time as well as a constant ticking motion in the piano to mimic a clock. The second poem, "Only Memory of a Family Vacation, Age 9", was set to portray the droning movement of a car and the wandering thoughts of a child as he observes what is around him.
- Rachel Fogarty
