Marisa Anderson - Friday Afternoon, November

"This piece is inspired by the James Baldwin quote 'The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.'

I live next door to a school and the sound of kids playing runs through my daily life. As I was working on this song I realized that when I listened back through headphones there was a silence at the heart of the piece, but when I listened back on speakers, the sound of the kids playing blew in through the window and I understood that this was the center around which the song revolves."