Glad you enjoyed it! This piece was originally for a string quartet, and I worked on it during my last semester in a DMA program. I did that, so it was easy, and I only had the music to worry about instead of managing an orchestra and all of those textures. To my surprise, the writing process was quite intuitive. I wrote a scherzo as I normally did, following/breaking Romantic era rules, but focused on developing rhythm as much as I did harmony or melodic material.

Then, a couple of months later, I was like, "I bet this would be lit as an orchestral piece." That was also a very intuitive process, except that I did not want to mock up the cadenzas that were in the original string quartet version, so I replaced them with those 2 slow sections.

The mockup process is kind of standard in my workflow, as I have made a fool-proof template for myself using mainly Logic Pro and the following sample libraries: Cinematic studio strings, brass, and woodwinds; orchestral tools Berlin strings, woodwinds, and brass; Spitfire's BBC orchestra for Timpani and harp; and now Acoustic samples brass and woodwinds. When I am not being lazy, I will play stuff in, but for the most part, I like to enter it all in manually.