Citizen 13660 - Vignettes - Clarinet with String Quartet (PDF)

Instrumentation: Clarinet with string quartet.

Citizen 13660 - Vignettes explores illustrations from the eponymous book by Miné Okubo, an artist of Japanese ancestry who experienced the World War II Japanese American Internment. Performance time: 15:00. It has eight movements:

• "We were outnumbered."
• The wind was playing havoc with the fine dust particles"
• "Trying to forget...just staring up at the sky."
• "Rumors: ...the San Francisco Bay Bridge had been blown up."
• "The clanging of thirty-six makeshift iron bells."
• "We were close to freedom and yet far from it."
• "A memorial service to honor a Japanese American soldier."
• "There was only the desert now."

Premiere performance by the Farallon Quintet.

Listen: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/farallon-quintet-originals/id1049994763

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfntoAT5IZk