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SOLILOQUY for Violin, Cello, and Piano (1997)

PROGRAM NOTE SOLILOQUY, a single-movement work of approximately 8 minutes, is an adaptation for violin, cello and piano of YEARNING, a work for violin and string orchestra composed for violinist Edna Michell and the late Lord Yehudi Menhuin in 1995. The adaptation was done in 1997 for the Peabody Trio, whose members have since performed…
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GLITTER, DOOM, SHARDS, MEMORY — STRING QUARTET NO. 3 (2012–13)

PROGRAM NOTE My third string quartet was composed at the invitation of the Pacifica Quartet, whose music-making I came to know intimately and admire greatly when they were resident performing artists at the University of Chicago (1999–2016). The piece was commissioned for Pacifica by Music Accord Inc., Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall. In…
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