Four Reflections
Duration - 25'
Instrumentation - Piano solo

Each movement in Four Reflections takes inspiration from a different reflective surface both in its aesthetic and structural characteristics. The first movement, "Deep Water", is a mood-setting prelude. "Shards of Glass", a perpetual motion toccata, forgoes notion of a time signature for a rapidly unfolding scattershot of small groups of sixteenth notes that carry “shards” of ideas which are transformed through numerous different harmonic and textural idioms. The third movement, "Eyes", unfolds in a giant modified palindrome where all the material is reflected (and mutated) around a midpoint. "Curved Metal" rounds out the set with a second brutal, driving toccata interrupted by a placid quintal chorale. Across the piece, gestures are often transposed, retrograded, rotated around an axis, or otherwise kaleidoscopically combined.

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I. Deep Water

II. Shards of Glass

III. Eyes

IV. Curved Metal

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Shards of Glass was selected for Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra's 2020 Call for Scores.