Instrumentation
Piano
Percussion 1 - Glockenspiel, Crotales, Almglocken (Eb4), Kick Drum, Snare Drum
Percussion 2 - Vibraphone, Almglocken (C4)
Percussion 3 - Marimba, Almglocken (G3, G4)
Percussion 4 - Marimba, Almglocken (Bb3, Bb4)
Percussion 5 - Timpani, Almglocken (D4)
Duration
7 minutes, 30 seconds
Program Notes
all at once was written in 2021 as the eponymous piece of my senior undergraduate composition recital.
It is a piece about the sizzle of the foam after a wave has crashed and how it just happened somewhere as I type
this and how it just happened somewhere else as you read it. It’s about wood grain and electron spin and the
stories we tell ourselves to make sense of a reality too complex for our cognition. It’s about a regular season
JV soccer game that may have taken place in Dubuque, Iowa on the day my grandmother died, and how I will never
know the score of that game and the players will never know my grandmother and none of us will ever know how
many blades of grass were on the field or whether that matters.
all at once performed in December 2021.
all at once
for piano and five percussionists | 2021
