Slapdash

Instrumentation: Flute, Trumpet in C, Double Bass, Percussion, Piano

Duration: ca. 15:00

Program Note:

Slapdash was written as an exploration of all things anxious, agitated, erratic, hasty, and hurried. The piece opens with an explosive gesture that contrasts a quick impulse and a prolonged reverberation. This basic motion generates the opening rhythmically-charged material which works into a frenzy, giving way to a searching, contemplative reflection. After a brief apotheosis, the rhythmic material slowly and insidiously returns before violently propelling forward towards the brutal conclusion.

Slapdash was commissioned by the University of South Carolina Spark Collective and was given the John and Lucretia Herr Award by the UofSC composition faculty.