Crossings (1976)

Viola and Guitar – 8 mins.

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Program Note

Crossings examines relationships between two string instruments which are similar in range but quite different in tone-production. The sections of the piece alternate between twinings of the instruments with similar material and sections in which the instruments perpendicularly intersect—one of them playing repeating background material against the other’s free soliloquy. Since the piece was commissioned for church performances, it has religious undertones, ending somberly at the foot of the Cross.