Shards (2018)

For female voice or tenor 8vb. About 5:15, range C4 to Ab5. On a poem by the composer written in the wake of the Parkland High School shootings on 14 February 2018; a bitter denunciation of the proliferation of guns and 2nd Amendment zealotry. Sections modelled on a Baroque chaconne alternate with more lyrical sections in 6/8.  Available from North Star Music.