“Acceptance is just awareness. You gotta learn to love the bomb… Boy, did I have a bomb when I was ten. That was quite an explosion. And I learned to love it … That might be why you don’t see me as someone angry and working out my demons onstage. It’s that I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.”

-Stephen Colbert

“this vast space” is a landscape poem - the landscape being our universe. this piece is an homage to our existence.

original instrumentation is as follows:

• 2 Violin 1

• 2 Violin 2

• 2 Violas

• 2 Violencellos

• 1 Contrabass