let love speak…then let love be silent. (2017)
Instrumentation: Percussion, Narrator
Duration: 6’
let love speak...then let love be silent. (2017) is a short interlude for marimba, crotales, voice, and body
inspired by the poem “Stories About Love” by Jason Schneiderman. Written in AB form, the piece
juxtaposes the quirky and dramatic ways we speak of love and the stillness and quietness of love felt
deeply. The A section, labeled “love; speaking through storytelling animals” features a rhythmically active
texture, interrupted by abrupt stops, silences, and sustains. The B section, “love quietly felt in its touch
and known by its face,” is rhythmically static in comparison and features a wider pallet of timbral colors.