shakuhachi choir (2024)
instrumentation: five parts, all 1.8 shakuhachi
premiere: April 25, 2024
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hanami Nights
Hudson Valley Shakuhachi Choir
duration: 8’
program note
Tall Grasses (2024), for shakuhachi choir, is dedicated to the Hudson Valley Shakuhachi Choir, who premiered it at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and also performed it in Innisfree Garden, as part of the Gardens for Peace program created and coordinated by the North American Japanese Garden Association in honor of the United Nations International Day of Peace.