This piece was inspired by the commissioning ensembles cats - Artemis and Xena. One of their cats has four legs, the other has three. For this reason, the piece juxtaposes 3/4 against 4/4. Cat Fight is written in a rounded binary form; the A section is a playful rondo, but the B section is the calculated and impending fight where the plotting swish of the cats' tails can be heard in the wire brushes on the snare drum. Instrumentation: clarinet and percussion (marimba 4.3 octave, snare drum) Duration: 9' Premiered June 2018 at Strata Festival of New Music, Saskatoon, SK by the Goodchild Grady Duo European premiere July 2018 at ClarinetFest in Oostende, Belgium
