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Violent Tender (2017)
for percussion quartet
performed by the University of Washington Percussion Ensemble​
Ed Cuneen
Mason Lynass
David Norgaard
Lynn Park
Bonnie Whiting, director
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November 2018
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commissioned and premiered at soundSCAPE, Maccagno, Italy, 2017
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when political violence parades around like adult civility,
when aggression is normalized,
how achingly empty is the sound of something pure?
in a rare moment of beauty, innocence, joy, must its purity be obscured by the echoes of violence?
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can tenderness do violence to violence?
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