Continuities

Description

Audio

Duration

4 min.

Instrumentation

Woodwind quintet

Program Notes

Continuities is a short, quirky little piece. Moments of extreme stasis are juxtaposed with flurries of activity, creating a herky-jerky push and pull of momentum. Despite the blockiness of the music, there are small lines that tie the instruments together into a unified fabric, and there are longer trajectories that bind the disjunct sections into a deeply bound whole. In particular, it is possible to trace one important path weaving from the bassoon tones at the opening upward through the ensemble to the closing flute solo