Dedicated to the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia, WA in honor of their silver 25th anniversay (II - V).Premiere November 7, 2010 by the SOGO Brass Choir with clarinetist Jeff Brooks; Greg Allison conducting.
The play is a monologue of a mother (a former cabaret singer)writing to her estranged daughter. The mother sings the 5 songs during the course of the play. The songs work well as a set apart from a performance of the play.
Short, virtuostic work for solo bass clarinet, which borrows a motif from the bass clarinet solo on the song 'Pharaoh's Dance,' from the album 'Bitches Brew' by Miles Davis.