Tag: 2015

BIRKAT HADEREKH – BLESSING FOR THE ROAD for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano (2014)

Birkat Haderekh—Hebrew for “Blessing for the Road”—begins its journey as a spacious, gently inflected solo clarinet melody, slowly unfolding as it gathers the other members of this clarinet quartet around itself, carving out a distinctive musical “space.” Looking at this piece in its totality, the opening phrase is, at some level, emblematic of the entire…
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STREAM (2015) for Clarinet and String Quartet

The title STREAM encapsulates some of the essential characteristics of this 16-minute long composition for clarinet and string quartet: it suggests flow—whether gentle or forceful; it implies a journey, one that could take us onto unexpected terrains yet is always moving forward; embedded into this word is also the idea of “stream of consciousness,” and with it, free association and unexpected twists of fancy.

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