Davis Sampson is an American composer who was born in 1951 and makes his teaching, performing, and composing career in New York. He is a founder of the ten-piece brass ensemble "Solid Brass."

This 1986 work was composed for brass quintet. It is a highly personal work, a sequel to his 1981 woodwind quintet named "In Memorian: W.E.S." Thus, both are part of the emotional aftermath of the murder of the composer¹s brother by the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis. It is a twelve-minute piece in one movement. It expresses the composer¹s continuing anguish, but unlike the earlier work it allows a feeling of strength to emerge from the despair and grief. It ends with a fast coda. Sampson dedicated the score to his mother, "Š whose optimism and resiliency have been an inspiration to me."

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