Sonatina for Soprano Saxophone and Piano: "Big Crunch"

Composer's Note:

Inspired by images gleaned from the extraordinary work of physicist Stephen W. Hawking, this sonatina, subtitled "Big Crunch," was commissioned by Tufts University to celebrate Dr. Hawking's appearance on the Tufts campus in the autumn of 1999. Composed in three interconnected movements, the sonatina progresses from a volatile, explosive opening to a brief musical representation of "the uncertainty principle;" the work closes with an imagined "singularity at the end of the universe"--a "big crunch."