IMPACT, for solo snare drum and percussion trio by Steven Landis

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IMPACT (2017)
for solo snare drum and percussion trio

I. Flint
II. The Calving of A68
III. ...and rain followed the plow
IV. susurrus
V. Meniscus Rising

Brett Dietz, soloist
James Waller, Oliver Molina, and Brian Bass, trio

Program Notes

*winner of the 2018 Black Bayou New Music Festival
Composition Competition

I. Flint
Cheap rhetoric, finger-pointing... pundits and politicians banter. Clean water is scarce, but not Legionnaires' disease.

II. The Calving of A68
An iceberg the size of Delaware named A68 broke from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica during the summer of 2017.

III. ...and rain followed the plow
"Rain follows the plow" is a debunked 19th century proverb that attributed rain to the amount of land that was farmed. Real estate moguls and government officials coined the adage to encourage farmers to settle in the United States western territories. Settlers over-farmed the land believing that divine and/or natural intervention would bring the rain. The poor farming practices helped promote the topsoil erosion and drought conditions of the dustbowl era.

IV. susurrus
Lapping shoreline wreathed in kelp, shells glimmer half-buried. Footprints go with the tide, leaving cigarette butts, bottles, and old fishing leader in their place.

V. Meniscus Rising
In Miami, manhole covers dance in the streets, the clatter tolls high tide.

IMPACT was commissioned by percussionist James Harris.