[shift-9]

for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and cello

performance time: 7'

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**Selected as the Honorable Mention in the Blue Mountain Forecast 2020 Call for Scores**

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An open parenthesis indicates the start of a new idea offset from a phrase.  (  [pronounced “shift-9”] is the exploration of this idea in motion. A thought is conceived, initial sketches are laid out, and indecision sets in as to how to progress. Following resets and rewrites, the idea springs to life and culminates in a refined final statement.