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I recently spoke with Mark about his new work, scored for alto saxophone, violin, viola, cello, and piano, and cast in four movements. Carlson describes it as a loving look backwards at music from an earlier time, especially music from American popular culture of the 1930s and 1940s, as he explores the breadth of melodic and harmonic invention of that era and reinterprets it in his own unique, classical-music voice.