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