Silence

Instrumentation: Soprano, Violin, Viola
Playing time: 7' 15"
Copyright 1975
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Silence was composed for Carol Sams, composer and colleague at the University of Washington.  The piece is partially texted and requires an extreme range, especially some very high passages.  The text is taken from writing of Dag  Hammaskjod translated by W.H. Auden.