Looking In
Chamber Instrumental
Instrumentation: 2 vln, 1 vla, 1 vc
Duration: 4:00
Premiered by Pyrenean Quartet at DePaul University Composers Forum (05/23/2022).
Description:
Looking In is a string quartet arrangement of a piece from a larger, five-movement musical theater work titled Two Faces. The show follows a proposed marriage between a young couple, a woman’s mental turmoil and self-doubt, and their relationship’s ultimate end. The story explores love between characters who are fundamentally unaligned and the process of growth fro heartbreak. When the woman returns to her ex-partner in Looking In, she learns he has already moved on with a new person. Looking In is the last song of Two Faces and is my first draft of potential orchestration for the show.