" data-original-title="" title="">Ezra Weiss began to compose a suite that he intended would be a cautiously optimistic message to his young children about the world they were living in and the challenges and promise they would face as they grew up. By the time this music was completed and recorded in December 2018, its mood and message had changed dramatically. This suite is now an impassioned cry by Weiss on how he and his children might cope with the dark, paranoid outlook that permeates American society. His music is, in turn, sarcastic, sorrowful, brooding and sometimes, even hopeful. It's matched by his narration, in the form of an imaginary letter to his sons, which goes from calm recitation to seething emotion over the course of the work.

The opening "Fanfare for a Newborn" creates a mood of brassy celebration infused with Latin dance rhythms by the entire band Then Weiss begins to speak in general terns, over quietly dignified piano, about his reasons for writing this music and how far our society has drifted from its promise, what he calls "The Truth of God." From there the suite alternates between Weiss' spoken passages and the subsequent musical responses. "Blues and the Alternative Fact" sounds like