The Pew, The Shroud, Tambourines

for flute, toy piano, tambourines
2008
duration 20 minutes

Based on President Bush’s 2007 State of the Union Address, pitch and structural details are based on data about 2007 US Marines casualties, depicting a rather drawn-out musical “Surge.”

Premiere September 2008, Long Beach, “Soundwalk 08” (Adam Fong, Lewis Keller, Christine Tavolacci)