Kip Winger is a genre-bridging composer with a long and successful career in rock music affiliated with luminaries of the genre such as Alice Cooper, Alan Parsons, Roger Daltrey and Bob Dylan. Over the past two decades, however, Winger has been establishing himself as a composer of orchestral classical music. His celebrated ballet score, Conversations with Nijinsky, led conductor Giancarlo Guerrero to commission the two works on this album. The violin concerto In the Language of Flowers incorporates ideas of floriography – in other words, codes based on flowers. The use of extra-musical symbolism continues with the second piece, Symphony of the Returning Light, which is an autobiographical fantasy in the tradition of Berlioz that incorporates the use of Morse code rhythms and centers on the theme of atonement.  Maestro Guerrero, Music Director Laureate of the Nashville Symphony, leads the performances recorded live in concert with concertmaster Peter Otto as soloist in the violin concerto.