Originally composed for viola, the first two Chocolates, “Valentine” and “Bittersweet,” offer soulful narratives that speak to devotion, poignancy, romance, uncertainty, longing. The third Chocolate, “Triple Mocha Indulgence,” is slightly less soul-searching, more ebullient, and progressively becomes animated (a sugar high, perhaps?) right up to its raucous close.
Chocolates was commissioned and premiered in 1998 by violist Michelle LaCourse, to whom this music is dedicated. Includes solo parts for Clarinet in A, Clarinet in Bb. -the publisher