Brandon, Jenni % Tide Pools - BSN/CEL

Tide Poolsfor bassoon and celloby Jenni Brandon (b. 1977) - American composer   When I first started to write this work I thought I would tell two separate stories – one of the ocean, its ebb and flow between high and low tide, and then the stories of the creatures that lie in the tide pools.  As I began to write, however, I realized that there is a strongly symbiotic relationship between these elements.  The creatures, always present, appear and disappear under the frothy flow of the water.  We glimpse them briefly before the waters swirl and darken, and it is finally when the ocean recedes during low tide that the treasures of these tide pools are fully, yet briefly, exposed.  Throughout this work the ocean flows and froths, submerges and swells, coming and going, and offering glimpses of the creatures that make their living in the folds and crevices of shoreline rocks.  The creatures are submerged and finally hidden in a never-ending give and take of survival and beauty. Descriptio