Dancing Universe

violin, cello, piano (2016)

Duration: 6:00

Program Note

Dancing Universe, composed in honor of my parents who both passed away in 2015, quotes fragments of their favorite hymns in memorium. While composing, I was also reflecting on T.S. Eliot’s monumental poem Four Quartets, especially these passages:

“And the bird called in response to
the unheard music hidden in the shrubbery…
…
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope
…
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting
…
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the
dancing.”