for solo Bass Clarinet
 
Performance by yours truly
 
*this solo comes in an advanced and an intermediate version both bundled into one!
 
This short solo for bass clarinet is about the birth of a star inside a nebula. The piece starts off calmly and slowly, building up gradually to a climax before eventually settling back down. This represents the humble beginnings of a star, to when there is chaos with debris all over the solar system with collisions and planets forming. At the end of this long process, millions of years, the star will finally settle into its main sequence stage in which it will remain for another 3-5 billion years.