Stunned – for viola solo imagines what transpires emotionally in a moment following a shocking realization – a moment when a person is stunned by the truth of what’s just happened. For instance, the moment immediately after being told of a loved one's death. Or a moment just following a witnessed incident - for instance watching the plane fly into the World Trade Center on 9-11. Or any number of moments that happen in people's lives...

It’s a moment that is suspended in time, and in this moment time itself is suspended in eternity.

Stunned exists in this moment as pure emotion, rapidly running a gamut of feelings - deep loss, fierceness, intensity, depletion, ferventness, gentleness, etc. until the moment passes and real time, life if you will, resumes.