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stub-toe hotline.

March 13th 2025

 

As a human being myself, I am quite accident-prone. A little soap in the eye here, a little fainting into glass cabinets there. But stubbing one's toe feels so stupid and yet can hurt so much. I will say a particular time when I stubbed my toe in September, among the many times I have stubbed my toe, I managed to stub it so badly that I couldn't walk amazingly for around a month, thus prompting the birth of this piece. In this piece, I really tried to consider why I was writing the way I was.

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So, you just stubbed your toe. But did you really stub your toe? Or are you in a dream? Is this even real? The pain, the embarrassment. But more importantly, if you were a fish... why? And what's your favourite colour? Red, yellow, orange, green, purple, indigo, maroon...

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Thank you for your patience. We appreciate your time!

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​Cardinal Quintet:

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flute/piccolo/toy harmonica - Kaoruko Takehara

Bb clarinet/Eb clarinet/bass clarinet/toy wind instrument - Cara Smith

bassoon/contra bassoon/toy saxo-flute - Connor Huss horn/toy horn - Esmé MacBride-Stewart

oboe/cor anglais/ toy plastic recorder - Anna Turner

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