a short cry

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Solo violin5'2025

a short cry

Ciara McGuire | Jang Composition Collaboration — Howard Hanson Hall, Rochester, NY, 2025

Written for the Eastman Jang Composition Collaboration

a short cry moves through restrained gestures and fading echoes, tracing fragments of half-remembered expression. Murmurs, brief intensities, and fragile lyricism drift without setting. A residue remains, of memory and loss. Sounds surface tentatively, like memories half-surfaced or voices softened by distance. What unfolds is quiet and porous, shaped by the erosion of presence.

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