for solo bass clarinet commissioned and premiered by Andrew Uren in 2005. Performances with 175 East in Auckland and Wellington and at the World Bass Clarinet Convention in Rotterdam. American premiere by Sean Rice, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater at the Juilliard School, New York, 1 Feb 2006, as part of the Focus! Festival

Dinner is served! This is no nouveau cuisine but rather a workingman's steak, bloody and cholesterol-laden. A fair challenge for the vice-like jaws of bass clarinetist Andrew Uren. Bon appetit!