Path (2007) - Belinda Reynolds

for clarinet, violin, cello and percussion Commissioned by the Robin Cox Ensemble and Common Sense Composers' Collective; Premiered November 2007 - Santa Barbara, CA PATH was written in the Summer of 2007 as part of the Common Sense Composers’ Collective/Robin Cox Ensemble. The title comes from the way the opening music sets a meditative atmosphere but soon takes a different path into an energetic rush of a single line of cascading notes that take one to another poit on the path of the opening material. The process is the basis for the structure of the piece, creating a sort of pot-minimalist ‘Rondo’, a form in which you have the similar or same material return again and again juxtaposed against contrasting material in between – onn could describe it as an A B A C A D etc. form. On a more personal level, the music reflects the mood I was in that summer. We all start down paths in life that are, for one reason or another, abruptly alterted, forcing us to take a different direction than