DESPAIR for Clarinet in B-flat and Violoncello (1993)
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DESPAIR was composed in the fall of 2003. It is intensely personal, and I hope it speaks for itself. DESPAIR is dedicated to Higo Harada.
"I detected some nicely tailored dry-point dissonant counterpoint that might have earned an A-minus in Milton Babbitt's classrooms."
Los Angeles Weekly