Rage/Resolve
premiere: JACK Quartet, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, 12/14/24
length: 18 minutes
date: 2024
instrumentation: string quartet and electronics
Program note:
Rage/Resolve is the third and final work in my Introspective Trilogy, a set of string quartets with electronics written for the JACK Quartet that examine inner emotional states through musical expression. The piece begins by reflecting on feelings of anger and frustration that arise from relentlessly bleak and seemingly unsolvable geopolitical conflicts. That is followed by a meditation on the internal resolution required to forge ahead in dark times without succumbing to despair.
Introspective Trilogy : 1. Undone (2016), 2. Inward (2017), 3. Rage/Resolve (2024)