https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0guuuE6NjjQ

>Written as a short elegy for a string ensemble, this piece came from an image of birds gathered around a dead comrade. Originally, it was to be written as a commission for an amateur ensemble, but the commission was cancelled, and the work alone remained. This is a simple piece in the form of a short, piecemeal song that becomes a faint melody which then develops into a melancholic recollection of a memory of long ago, before blending back into its original piecemeal form, and finally fading away. It was written between the summer of 1997 and the spring of 1998, and was completed in March. It needs a minimum of twelve player (4-3-2-2-1), but can be performed by up to thirty-seven (12-9-6-6-4).