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Race in Space!

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Co-written and premiered with Csaba Jevtic-Somlai, Race in Space! contemplates the experience of private space travel. The music is both sprightly and explorative with clear melodies and tonal bouts blended with growling, multiphonics, bends, scoops, glissandi, and even reconstructions and additions to the clarinet. Electronic interludes based on NASA footage frame the launch and landing movements.

Movements

  1. Preparations

  2. Liftoff

  3. Leaving the Atmosphere

  4. In Outer Space

  5. Splash Landing!

Premiered by Csaba Jevtic-Somlai and Dylan Findley on June 29th, 2022 at the annual International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest, Reno, NV.