Dale - A Monodrama for Flute, Bb Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Narrator, and Piano

It can be difficult to acknowledge when you aren’t quite as close with someone as you used to be. “Is it my fault? I hardly reached out… But, then again, neither did they…” It’s been years since I’ve spoken to various old friends — ones that I used to see nearly every day. I wrote Dale in an attempt to examine the kind of passivity that leads to the end of relationships like those. Set in the bleak, everyday England of my childhood, Dale tells the story of a husband and wife who don’t quite know each other like they used to.