Vine-Lattice
for string orchestra. 14’
A lover goes to meet her Beloved in the garden at night. The sounds of invisible creatures are heard: birds, insects, wolves, and mysterious creeping things. Every snapping twig, and every haunted call makes her anxious heart leap for His arrival...
But the Beloved is long delayed... perhaps he will never come. Finally, she glimpses through the lattice of vines a majestic deer, silhouetted by the moon. It is He, in an unexpected form...
Photo credits: Original