The Sidewalks Revisited, composed for oboist Robert Botti, celebrates the perseverance of New York’s past, and emphasizes its present. This is accomplished by creating contemporary music around notes from the city’s oft considered theme song, “The Sidewalks of New York" (1894), which are expressed as half-notes. The piece was a submission to the Vox Novus "Fifteen-Minutes-of Fame" Composers Voice concert series. The half-notes in the score represent the opening melody of the chorus, in the key of a minor.