FALL

Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Violin, & Double Bass
34’ (2003)

  1. Freeway March

  2. Tunes from Suburbia

  3. Fading Pastorale

  4. Frog in a Pot

  5. Bumper to Bumper on the Highway to Hell

  6. March of Oblivion

  7. Concert

  8. Three Videos

  9. Devil’s Laugh

  10. Hymn

  11. Homeland Insecurity

  12. Forgotten Pastorale

  13. Collapse

PROGRAM NOTE

A piece I wrote in 2003 about the possible impending collapse of America, drawing a musical and narrative parallel between the soldier who sells his soul to the devil in Stravinsky’s 1918 piece L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) and the moral compromises made by Americans and their leadership in the wake of 9-11. Each of the thirteen movements of FALL mirrors one from L’Histoire, and tells of a nation in decline—just one in a long list throughout history.