Ava’s War

Ava's War is a 12-tone piece based on Schoenberg’s system in which each of the twelve chromatic pitches can only be used again after all the other pitches have been used. The inspiration for this piece is a story of a girl who was neglected as a child. The first movement Memoir speaks of her child-hood years in which tragedy struck home with the loss of a loved one and the years following. The second movement Aurora shows that not everything is lost and that there is “hope for the future”.