Despite the shadows (2014)

Duration: ca. 11′
Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl, hp, celesta, vln, vla, vc
Commissioned by the Palimpsest Ensemble
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Despite the shadows was composed at the request of Susan Narucki, who was curating the February 2014 concert of UCSD’s Palimpsest Ensemble. The piece was written as a companion piece for Luigi Dallapiccola’s Piccola musica notturna. It is a meditation on working through the grief of infertility.

The piece is structured using a single chord, gradually built note by note in the opening section, and slowly transforming and transposing throughout the piece as the voicing expands.

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

February 19, 2014 – San Diego, CA (world premiere)
Jonathan Hepfer, conductor
Palimpsest Ensemble