Zeugma
String quartet | 2013 | 9'
Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award
Premiere:
Rosco String Quartet. Salty Cricket Composers' Collective: “Unlikely Bedfellows.” Ladies’ Literary Club, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 8, 2014.
“Zeugma” is a figure of speech in which one word takes on two or more different senses. The piece is based on this idea, dealing with how musical ideas can develop in different ways, interact with one another, and be related to one another.
