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?

 

OR

 

can tenderness do violence to violence?

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