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Footrows (2013)​​

string orchestra

5 minutes

commissioned by the Brattle Street Chamber Players of Harvard University

The premiere was at Paine Hall at Harvard on April 5th, 2013 by the Brattle Street Chamber Players.

Footrows is scored for 17 strings:
​7 violins
4 violas
4 cellos
​2 basses
PictureThe Brattle Street Chamber Players in Paine Hall at Harvard
My freshman year, I was asked to write Footrows for Harvard's student-run conductor-less string orchestra, The Brattle Street Chamber Playeres, when another composer dropped out. I looked to Mahler in this piece, specifically, the way his orchestral writing can in one moment resemble intimate chamber music and in next reach earth-shattering tutti climaxes. I tried to find such a range in this piece's much smaller scale. There is an antante sensibility to much of the music, which led me to the piece's title. 

Score