Written: March 2025 — April 2025

Duration: 3’

Instrumentation: 3.3.3.3 + 4.3.3.1 + timp/perc[3]/hp/pf + strings

Performance History

April 21, 2025: USC Thornton Symphony cond. Donald Crockett — (reading)

Program Notes

“There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount, a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand.

There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be”.

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire