In Whose Mouth, the Stars (2021)
by Akshaya Avril Tucker

Instrumentation: violin I, violin II, viola, cello
Length: 8 mins
PDF Price: $35+

COMPOSER’S NOTE:
When Krishna was a child, he once was caught eating sand. Concerned, his mother Yashoda scolded him and pried his mouth open. There, instead of dirt, she beheld the entire universe and beyond, with all its galaxies, with every element of the earth, the human mind and its senses, her own village and she herself. This piece was inspired by that fascinating moment. I imagined it through in different melodic placements of Raag Charukeshi -- a raag that holds longing, tension, transcendence -- with help from the wonderful variety of timbres and ranges that these instruments produces. 
-Akshaya Avril Tucker

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In Whose Mouth, the Stars for string trio
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