For reed quintet (oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and bassoon) and fixed media (pre-recorded sound).
Title from cover.
Score includes URLs to streamed practice and performance tracks.
Written for the Akropolis Reed Quintet in 2018. Premiered in East Haddam, Connecticut and New York City in August 2018 as a part of the I-Park Foundation's 2018 Composers + Musicians Collaborative Residency.
Inspired by the writing of Gabriel GarcĂa Marquez, Firing squad explores "the intense moment of confronting death and expanding the moment into all possible feelings and memories one might go through before saying farewell to life"--Program note.