Meanwhile: Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays

Awarded two Grammys in 2013: Best Contemporary Classical Composition to Stephen Hartke and Best Chamber Music Performance to eighth blackbird for their album Meanwhile on Cedille Records (CDR90000133). Commissioned for eighth blackbird by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. Incorporates various forms of Asian court and theater music from Japanese Bunraku, to Vietnamese water puppets, both Indonesian and Turkish shadow puppets, to classic Burmese court theater. INSTRUMENTATION: Flute (d Picc, A fl, large Flexatone, beaters removed); Clarinet (BCl, large Flexatone, beaters removed); Viola (scordatura: B-F#-C#-G#); Cello; Percussion; Piano