Angles of Response (2015)
for clarinet and piano
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Eric Ginsberg, clarinet
Ashlee Mack, piano
Ashlee Mack, piano
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Angles of Response, for clarinet and piano, was commissioned by Eric Ginsberg. The single-movement work, completed in August 2015, has a total duration of approximately eight minutes. The title is borrowed from a line in an essay, by American author David Foster Wallace, titled Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley: “Competitive tennis… requires geometric thinking, the ability to calculate not merely your own angles but the angles of response to your angles.” In the duo, the two players frequently interact at close range, and must constantly interpret and reinterpret different musical “angles” in the areas of pitch, rhythm, and dynamic. Like a good tennis match, both players are called upon to contribute equally and creatively as iterations and responses combine to produce memorable events.