One Voice for 3 Clarinests (B-flat and Bass Clarinet) (2024)
PROGRAM NOTES
With the title of the piece being tentatively “One Voice” my thoughts around the piece have become more of a question of “what does one voice mean”? Does it mean that only one of us speaks? Does this mean that we all speak but we must be saying the same thing? Is it really dissension if we aren’t saying the same thing? Could we be saying different things that actually fit together like pieces of a puzzle? Clearly, I can’t know the answer to this question, if there is an answer at all. But, how can music reflect this process of questioning that I think completely relates and mimics the way our society has been [ineffectively] communicating?
Time: Approx. 10 minutes
PROGRAM NOTES
With the title of the piece being tentatively “One Voice” my thoughts around the piece have become more of a question of “what does one voice mean”? Does it mean that only one of us speaks? Does this mean that we all speak but we must be saying the same thing? Is it really dissension if we aren’t saying the same thing? Could we be saying different things that actually fit together like pieces of a puzzle? Clearly, I can’t know the answer to this question, if there is an answer at all. But, how can music reflect this process of questioning that I think completely relates and mimics the way our society has been [ineffectively] communicating?
Time: Approx. 10 minutes
PROGRAM NOTES
With the title of the piece being tentatively “One Voice” my thoughts around the piece have become more of a question of “what does one voice mean”? Does it mean that only one of us speaks? Does this mean that we all speak but we must be saying the same thing? Is it really dissension if we aren’t saying the same thing? Could we be saying different things that actually fit together like pieces of a puzzle? Clearly, I can’t know the answer to this question, if there is an answer at all. But, how can music reflect this process of questioning that I think completely relates and mimics the way our society has been [ineffectively] communicating?
Time: Approx. 10 minutes