Year: 2017 | Type: Four-movement duet for clarinet and viola | Duration: ca. 11'
As a child, I cherished Nathaniel Hawthorne's story of Pandora's Box, and when Dr. Katrin Meidell and Dr. Elizabeth Crawford commissioned me to compose for their duet Violet, the idea of using the story as inspiration was one of the first to come to mind. It features two characters, Pandora and Epimetheus, and the viola, like a box, can produce an array of sounds, including some with an eerie quality.
Notes:
This work premiered in 2018 at Sursa Hall, Ball State University, Indiana, by the duo Violet: Katrin Meidell (viola) and Elizabeth Crawford (clarinet).