speckled the green and blue (2014, rev. 2016)

Pierrot ensemble and percussion
Duration: 8’

Commissioned by Collage New Music

Premiered March 1, 2015 at Longy School of Music
Collage New Music; David Hoose, conductor

performed by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble


“Behold, the sea itself,
And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships;
See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue,
See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port,
See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.”

— Walt Whitman, Song of the Exposition