ensemble flute, viola, and harp
duration 7 minutes
written winter 2006
commissioned by the Fitts/Chang/Jackson trio
premièred April 25, 2006, New Haven, CT
published by Andres & Sons Bakery

I Found it in the Woods describes the progressive weathering of a theme built out of found musical objects (the first two chords, for example, are taken out of a passage in Brahms’s A major violin sonata). The piece would ideally be performed outside (though this might require amplification).

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