TWINGE

TWINGE: A 45-minute chamber work for soprano, clarinet, and piano inspired by Barry Bearak’s New York Times Magazine article,“The Day The Sea Came”, which recounts the stories of six survivors from the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh during the December 26, 2004 tsunami.  (“Twinge” refers to Bearak’s opening sentence: “For the earth, it was just a twinge.”)

TWINGE has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

"...And yet inevitably, survivors cannot help wondering how God's hand might have directed events differently. They revisit their memories of that morning, how violently the ground shook, how mercilessly the sea invaded, how densely tragedy contaminated the city. The suddenness still astonishes them.   After all, it had begun as such an ordinary Sunday."