for winds, brass, and percussion (3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, bass trb, tuba, 2 percussionists)
Commissioned and premiered by Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, (1990), H. Robert Reynolds, Conductor)
dur. 7.5′

Kaddish, the most often recited prayer in the Jewish liturgy is a plea for world peace. Typically associated with mourning, the Kaddish is used as a moment of reflection at any transition ranging from the end of studying one tract and the beginning of the next, to the passage from life to death. Pause is a musical commentary on Salomone Rossi 1622 setting of the Kaddish.
The work was written for, and is dedicated to the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings.