Inside Reflection (2024)

Bass Trombone (with optional solo piano prologue) – 5 mins.

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Program Note

Inside Refection may be played simply as an unaccompanied bass trombone solo, or as a “staged” version with a solo piano prologue that provides a context for the heart of the work.

The “staged” version should ideally follow the performance of another work on the program with the pianist and the trombonist left onstage after applause. The trombonist begins doing whatever he/she might do in-between pieces (drinking a glass of water, adjusting the music), giving no notice to the pianist who plays a little tune to themself, and exits. The trombonist should seem to be unaware of having heard the tune, although elements of that melody may subliminally be influencing the deeply personal soliloquy he/she plays to resonate their shifting emotions.