Program Notes:

Elegy to the Future for Pierrot ensemble was written in Tel Aviv, Israel during a period of daily bomb attacks, shooting and growing tension. I asked myself how and when it would end. Then came September 11, 2001 and my previous thoughts received an even greater dimension. This piece, which was completed in September 26, 2001, deals with the sorrow, restlessness and fear for the future, caused by such events. Toward the end of the piece, one can hear fragments from the second movement of Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488.For me, this fragment represents the understanding that things will never be the same again and that the pure is now shadowed in darkness. Elegy to the Future was commissioned by, and is dedicated to David Hoose, and Collage New Music.