Cowboys in the Zone was written in 2012 for Blue Arch Strings.
The title is fanciful, and though the music gives a general impression, I had no specific programmatic content in mind. Rather, I wanted to explore certain kinds of repetition and variation in an atmosphere of levity.
In 2024 I made a version for symphony orchestra with a few revisions. This is a version using Arne Wallander’s NotePerformer