for Ensemble VONK
soprano, tenor saxophone, clarinet, vibraphone
Performances:
- Ensemble VONK, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands 11/12/2017 and 11/25/2017
- Galvin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 04/29/2018
Program Note:
Awareness of ecological relationships is—or should be—the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all—perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.
—Rachel Carson, “Essay on the Biological Sciences” (1958)