Animal Expeditions (1999) 7'
Instrumentation:
Solo piano
Awards:
First place in the 2001 Pikes Peak Young Composers Competition.
Gold medal in the composition category at the 2000 Spokane Music and Allied Arts Festival.
Movements:
1. Hummingbird Kinetics (Listen - 1.36MB .MP3)
2. Snapping Turtle (Listen - 783KB .MP3)
3. Crabs Skittering (Listen - 2.44MB .MP3)
4. Hedgehog (Listen - 846KB .MP3)
5. The Ostrich and the Emu (Listen - 1.74MB .MP3)
6. Salamander (Listen - 1.28MB .MP3)
7. The Fingerling Taunting the Fiddler Crab (Listen - 2.29MB .MP3)
Animal Expeditions captures the personas of various journeying animals - hummingbirds compete frantically for the best nectar, a waddling hedgehog searches for a bit of lettuce, a small fish tests the patience of a crab and is ultimately eaten.The three movements that take their names from forest animals - Snapping Turtle, Hedgehog, and Salamander - are each off-kilter dances that share the same palindromic form.