Published: 2010

Publisher: Lecta Music Publications

Duration: 4:36

Grade: 5

Difficulty: Difficult

Eternal Waves was composed in June and July of 2010 for the Pepperdine University Symphony Orchestra, Tony Cason, Director. The music is based on William Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 60 that explores the ravages of time. In the first quatrain, the unidentified speaker of the sonnet likens each human being’s time on earth to the waves of the sea that “make towards the pebbled shore.” He says, as do the waves, “our minutes hasten to their end.”