Chamber Works - Box
of Secrets (1998)
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| instrumentation | piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, 'cello, and marimba | premiere | Premiered
May 22, 1998 by Earplay at the Composer-in-the-Schools Salon San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco, California |
| duration | 8 minutes | ||
| commission details | Commissioned by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum | ||
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| program note | In every artist's mind is a little place where they store objects of beauty and terror that cannot be shared with the dialogue of daily life. Nurtured by the warmth of constancy, the contents of the box of secrets gain their own life and identity, informing the work of existence and creation in their desperate need to escape. For some artists, ecstasy; for others, torment…yet the inhabitants within never leave a pen empty. | ||
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