She Shooed the Tempting Shadow (2010)
String Quartet
~5:30
~5:30
PROGRAM NOTE:
She Shooed the Tempting Shadow is a loosely programmatic work featuring two contrasting themes. The cello represents the “tempting shadow” and presents its theme at the beginning of the piece, while the first violin represents the unnamed girl and presents her theme later. The inner two voices serve as a representation of the inner turmoil a person goes through when struggling with temptation; sometimes they play the girl's theme and other times the shadow's. After each theme is developed separately the two begin overlapping and interrupting the other, intensifying until the violin's cadenza at the end. Afterward the piece quietly fades away, the temptation vanquished.
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She Shooed the Tempting Shadow is a loosely programmatic work featuring two contrasting themes. The cello represents the “tempting shadow” and presents its theme at the beginning of the piece, while the first violin represents the unnamed girl and presents her theme later. The inner two voices serve as a representation of the inner turmoil a person goes through when struggling with temptation; sometimes they play the girl's theme and other times the shadow's. After each theme is developed separately the two begin overlapping and interrupting the other, intensifying until the violin's cadenza at the end. Afterward the piece quietly fades away, the temptation vanquished.
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