for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano
Duration: 17 minutes
Commissioned by the Kentucky Center Chamber Players
Program notes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson summarized music, without trying to, when he wrote in his 1841 essay, “Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.” Through this lens these Variations came to be. Owing debt to Wallace Stevens’ Variations on a Summer Day for structure and motive, these twenty (short) variations were composed during the winter of 2014/2015.
(excerpt from premiere performance)
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