Caesium Tears — Violin & Alto Saxophone (2025)

1 violin performance score (PDF)

1 alto saxophone performance part (PDF)

Duration: ca. 8 minutes

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Program note:

Caesium (atomic number 55) is one of few elemental metals that is liquid at or near room temperature. Caesium’s melting point (83.3° F) is just below the temperature of the human body. What would tears of caesium sound like? Caesium Tears entwines violin harmonic double stops with haunting saxophone dyad multiphonics, both instruments flirting with an expressive microtonality and sharing a haunting central melody that is always finding new ways and reasons to shed a tear.