Picture of the Week: Processing and remembering with music
Like many CU Boulder students, saxophonist Josh Sweeney shopped regularly at the Table Mesa King Soopers, site of the March 22 mass shooting. A sophomore majoring in music and mechanical engineering, Sweeney was fortunate that the shooting didn鈥檛 directly involve anyone in his immediate circle. Nonetheless, he lives in the neighborhood and felt a strong emotional impact. "I remember not knowing what to feel, but it was mostly a mixture of sadness, fear and confusion,鈥� he says. So Sweeney turned to music to process his emotions. Read on and hear him play an arrangement for seven saxophones of Samuel Barber鈥檚 famously moving 鈥淎dagio for Strings.鈥�