Tag: André Emelianoff (cello)

PRIVATE GAME for Clarinet and Cello (1979)

PROGRAM NOTE The Da Capo Chamber Players’ invitation to a group of composers/friends of the ensemble to write a short piece incorporating, in any way desired, the group’s name into its format, turned out to be an interesting challenge. Repetition is the essence of comprehensibility. But — Da Capo, today? While the initial temptation was…
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FANTASY VARIATIONS for solo cello (1979, rev. 1984)

PROGRAM NOTE Fantasy Variations for solo cello is comprised of a theme and four variations. Aspects of the two main ideas appearing in the work’s opening are taken through a series of transformations. They are: (1) a brooding, introductory line which returns at several key points, straddling the blurred boundaries between elemental, raw sound and…
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