PALINOPSIA

for alto saxophone & VIOLA | 6’ | 2025

Instrumentation - Alto Saxophone | Viola

Premiered on April 3rd, 2025 at the Juilliard School in Paul Hall by Langston Hughes II [a. sax] and Janice Leung [vla].

difficulty

Moderate - Advanced

Program Notes

PALINOPSIA – a phenomenon in which an image (or in this case, sound) reoccurs though the initial stimulus has left. From Greek roots, the word means “seeing again”. This work explores two voices intertwining, calling and responding, and echoing one another in turn. Saying what seems to be the same thing, persistent in gesture, though the originating intent dissipates.