Katherine Balch

Responding to the Waves

Subtitle	version for violin and viola
Year(s) composed	2016/arr. 2026
Publisher	Schott Music
Duration	10'
Movements	I. Chrysalis II. Nets of Wings III. Fractures
Premiere	Original version for solo violin: March 13, 2017; “Circling the Waves,” The Dairy Center, Boulder, CO; Michiko Theurer, violin
Commission	Original version for solo violin commissioned by Michiko Theurer
Composer note	“Look,” said Rhoda; “listen. Look how the light becomes richer, second by second, and bloom and ripeness lie everywhere; and our eyes, as they range round this room with all its tables, seem to push through curtains of colour, red, orange, umber and queer ambiguous tints, which yield like veils and close behind them, and one thing melts into another.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves