Imagine standing inside a large gothic cathedral as it starts to crumble. But rather than a thunderously destructive scene, imagine all the stones falling like leaves around you. Sunlight filtering through the canopy and dancing in wild patterns. Stones settling delicately on the ground, or carried off on the wind that now gently shapes a forest of crumbled rock. If Stones Fell Like Leaves was commissioned by Campus and Student Life at the University of Chicago. The piece is written for Dean Elizabeth Davenport as she departed from Rockefeller Chapel after ten years of serving as Dean. The piece was premiered by Joey Brink on November 18, 2018, at Rockefeller Chapel.

—Joey Brink