ANNE STRICKLAND
COMPOSER
Invisible Ink
II. Passing Notes
III. Overdrawn
IV. Letters Kept
I. Fresh Paper, Straight Edge
After the recent passing of my grandfather and grandmother, I came across their oldest photograph album. I found pictures of events including their first date, a dangerous hike up Long’s Peak, and cross-country road trips. In most of the scenes my grandparents were the age that I am now, and I realized that although I had known my grandparents for all of my life, I knew them for a relatively short period of their lives. I found myself drawn to these windows into unspoken memories, and I began to imagine the flood of people, places, emotions, and experiences that filled my grandparent’s history. I saw their stories—stories written invisible ink—through the lens of my own experiences, and these movements emerged as musical snapshots of two lives well lived.
Helen Blackburn, Flute
Paul Garner, Clarinet
Peter Grenier, Bassoon
-commissioned by Voices of Change-