I wrote this piece as a gift for a friend of mine and a fellow horn player who went into the U.S. Peace Corps. In order to commemorate her service, I decided to write a fantasia using a North African folk tune (Kadria aârak) as the principle material. While writing I made it one of my goals to make the two parts as equal in weight as possible (the first part is not necessarily dominant, as is usually the case in traditional duets).
Brandon Nelson 
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