Candey: Pale in Your Shadow (Version for Oboe, Horn, & Piano)

Composer: Griffin Candey (1988-) Format: Set of Parts Instrumentation: Piano, Oboe, Horn Work: Pale in Your Shadow (2023) Binding: Pages: 17 Description Pale in Your Shadow, Griffin Candey Versions: - Oboe, french horn, and piano (2022) 5' - Clarinet, french horn, and piano (2023) 5' - Violin, french horn, and piano (2023) 5' Pale in Your Shadow, written for Fifth House Ensemble, responds to a question: what responsibility do we have for what happened before we were alive? The question, posed during the commission process, immediately brought to mind the concept of generational curses—specifically, breaking generational curses. That language—"breaking curses"—summons up violent, physical imagery, a hammer blow to break the chains, to rid us of generational loose ends. It imagines our forebears as the antagonists and us as the protagonists, neatly delineating consequence and blame. in reality, intergenerational trauma often defies these neat definitions: some wounds ar