UNDERCURRENT

UNDERCURRENT

Instrumentation: cello and piano

Duration: 15 minutes

Composed: 2013

Premiere: September 26, 2013 by Laura Metcalf (cello) and Gregg Kallor (piano) at SubCulture NYC

with cellist Joshua Roman at SubCulture NY

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Sometimes there's a disconnect between the things we feel and the things we say; Undercurrent explores where the two meet. The simmering line that the cello and piano pass back and forth is always churning away just under the surface, like the fraught subtext that sometimes attends our most intimate conversations — until it bubbles up and explodes. (Some relationships are, um... dynamic.) The middle movement evokes that fragile place of unspoken intimacy — where a glance, a gesture, a touch can mean everything.