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A programmatic symphonic journal of the NO DAPL affair.

 During fall and winter of 2016, the ceremonies and non-violent prayerful actions of ten thousand water protectors at Oceti Sakowin camp near Cannonball, ND were met with extreme human rights abuses at the hands of big oil entrenched militarized police authorities. The Dakota Access Pipeline was illegally being built through Treaty Lands of the Sioux Tribes. Sacred burial and ceremonial lands were desecrated and destroyed as the tar sands oil pipeline was also being constructed beneath the Missouri River without permits or Environmental Impact Study, an ongoing toxic threat to the only major water source for the Standing Rock Sioux as well as 18 million people in seven states downstream. Unfortunately, although the Environmental Impact Study has never been completed, the pipeline itself was completed via President Trump's Executive Order on his fourth day in office. The oil derived from this pipeline does not go to help our domestic use, it is fully exported to Asia for profit.

 About the recording of this new symphony: it is a digital mock-up of real instruments placed in a performance mix according to my score and recorded as per the Los Angeles Philharmonic instrumental seating arrangement. With this recording, in a real sense you get to hear the orchestra as if from the conductor's podium, the highest priced seat in the music hall!