For String Quintet

Antenati often produces a monophonic passage called a spiral which may be duplicated, offset and recombined to produce a spiral canon. This string quintet was composed from an antenati spiral called The Wildcat, created while I was on a residency at The Cedar Grove in West Glover, Vermont. During a walk, I encountered a wild lynx and mused on the colloquial term wildcat—seemingly more common when I was young and when wild felids were yet more numerous in The United States. Always a fascination of mine, I felt the American wildcat’s presence during the course of the residency warranted acknowledgment and named this spiral after her.