I've wanted to write a "bluegrass sonata" for quite some time, and some of the themes began as tiny fragments I wrote years ago.

The first movement borrows its title from a line of dialogue in my favorite film of the 2020s so far, Poor Things. The phrase "A World to Enjoy" perfectly encapsulates the spirit of joie de vivre I wanted to be present throughout the work, but especially in the opening movement, and the film itself elicits such an emotion from me every time I watch it.

The second movement is a brief set of variations on one of my favorite murder ballads which has been recorded under many titles: The Two Sisters, The Only Tune, Dreadful Wind and Rain, and many others. The story of the tune concerns two sisters pining for the same suitor. When he proposes to the younger, the elder drowns her in the river, and her body floats away to the mill, where the miller fishes her out and fashions her bones into a fiddle. "And the only tune that fiddle would play was 'Oh the Dreadful Wind and Rain."

The final movement is my own fiddle-tune heavily inspired by the work of Arizona-based folk musician Rebekah Rolland, with the cello playing the part of the fiddler. The movement is titled after my beloved companion, my cat Marjorie.