An excerpt from In Memoriam can be viewed and heard here:
Recorded by Canal 22, Mexico
as a part of the
Soliloquy: Song of the Anchorite.
Second Movement from Clarinet Quintet
In Memoriam: for those in time of war
NOTES
In medeval times, an anchorite was a nun tied to a church or abbey. In some extreme cases, she was walled in to her living space, which she never left. The clarinet plays simple melodies out of very few notes, suspended by the quartet playing in different metres, often playing in duos. At the end, the simple, repeated figuration of the strings disappears into gesture with no sound.
