Pass the Torch!

Commissioned by The Women Composers Festival of Hartford for its 2024 Festival
Written for Balance Campaign

for flute, Bb clarinet/bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello
2023
10 minutes



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PROGRAM NOTES: Pass the Torch! embodies my recent rumination about growing up, generational succession, nostalgia, and coming to terms with unfulfilled, perhaps misguided, expectations. Who holds a torch and with whom do they share it—when, how, and why? Passing the torch also conjures thoughts of mutual aid efforts, community building, and the Phoenix scenario of dismantling and rebuilding systems that work against one’s journey to self- actualization, whether settler colonialism, prejudice, or the exploitations of capitalism. Commissioned by the Women Composers Festival of Hartford for its 2024 festival, this energetic outburst of playfulness and longing was written to showcase the talents of the Washington DC-based ensemble, Balance Campaign.