Nocturne

Nocturnefor str. min (7, 6, 5, 4, 3) The performance parts for this work are available for rental only. Please send an email to noah@kenjibunchmusic. com for a rental application, or proceed to checkout if you would like to purchase the score only.

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for clarinet in A and string quartet

this work imagines a day in the life of a Chinese railroad worker

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Composer's Note:

We could also think of the mid-century American artist Joseph Cornell's surrealist juxtapositions of sentimental artifacts in his hauntingly captivating shadow boxes

The sounds of nature in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas weave together with sounds of colliding cultures and the clang of the grueling task of forging this crucial artery for American commerce and the annexation of Native lands

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with whom it was my great honor to premiere the piece

fo clarinet and viola

for two violas

These people are living in the midst of a desert where they see nothing except tar paper covered barracks