Work
Dim Brightness Reprise
for jazz ensemble
About
“A coda to the concert, perhaps a good partner to Techniques. In the first stanza, it references the theme of the everlasting, sourceless Way: used, but not used up. This selflessness is to be emulated, for our own good as much as everyone else.” - Jake Baxendale
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the 2023 Wellington Jazz Festival
Text note
Ursula K Le Guin's translation of Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching