ALARM

Composed: 2023
Premiere: North Coast Winds, October 15, 2023, Cleveland Composers Guild
Duration: 6 minutes
Instrumentation: Woodwind Quintet

Performed by North Coast Winds:
Zoe Stier - flute, Johanna Cox Pennington - oboe, Ben Chen - clarinet, Emily Shelley - horn, Arleigh Savage - bassoon

PROGRAM NOTES

This work began as a study of sounds for woodwind quintet, some based on research for another piece where I was looking for frightened bird sounds. The material took me in different directions as well.  Still the word “Alarm” came very clearly into my mind as I was finishing the work.  There are so many ways to interpret the word alarm - as a verb - as a noun, etc.  So I leave it to the listener’s imagination.  Or it can just be heard as a study in wind quintet sounds