SOME TREASURES ARE HEAVY WITH HUMAN TEARS (score & parts)

(CONTENT WARNING: This program note describes an act of public mass violence and may be traumatic or uncomfortable to some readers. Discretion is advised.)
At 1:05 AM on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in the Oregon Historic District of Dayton, Ohio, a man armed with a semi-automatic AM-15 approached a crowded neighborhood bar and opened fire. In under thirty seconds, he fired 41 rounds, killing nine people and injuring another 17.
That''s where the story of John Mackey''s Some treasures are heavy with human tears begins.
One of the victims of the shooting was a young woman who had played trumpet in her high school band in nearby Bellbrook. The Bellbrook program reached out to Mackey to commission a work that would commemorate the tragedy, a task he approached with some reluctance:
I''ve been asked on several occasions to write pieces in response to tragedies, but I''ve rarely felt like it was appropriate. Something about this, though''happening in Dayton, where I''ve been many times, and so c

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