Alex Shapiro, composer: The Ebb of Memory

The Ebb of Memory

(String orchestra).
Total duration ca. 8 minutes (2010)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
One movement work. 14 pages (score), 8.5" x 11".

Audio clip performed by Miwako Watanabe and Connie Kupka, violins; Victoria Miskolczy and David Walther, violas; and David Speltz, cello.

The Ebb of Memory is also available as a string quintet, appearing as the second movement, Ebb, in Current Events:

Current Events

(String quintet: 2 violins, 2 violas, 1 cello).
Total duration ca. 16 minutes (2003)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2003 by Gerry Aster
and by J. Christopher Kennedy for Pacific Serenades.
Three movement work. 26 pages (score), 8.5" x 11".

Premiered on March 8, 2003 in Los Angeles, CA.
by Miwako Watanabe and Connie Kupka, violins;
Victoria Miskolczy and David Walther, violas
and David Speltz, cello.

Recorded in June 2003 in Los Angeles, CA.
by Miwako Watanabe and Connie Kupka, violins;
Victoria Miskolczy and David Walther, violas
and David Speltz, cello.

Current Events is featured on the 2007 Innova Recordings CD, Notes from the Kelp (innova 683). Click CD for more info.

View a page and hear music clips of any of the three movements:
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2. Ebb, from Current Events, from which The Ebb of Memory was adapted
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Purchase this score Score and parts available from Activist Music for $175.00.

The Ebb of Memory is an elegy for the living. A reflection of two realities, it is an anguished missive for those haunted by unsettling recollections, and a compassionate plea for those with dementia, unable to recollect at all. We spend our lives amassing experiences. Our memories, both wonderful and painful, tether us to an identity that is earned from our history. Without those memories, even though alive, we cease to exist.

1. The Ebb of Memory, page 1

1. The Ebb of Memory, page 11