PROGRAM NOTE The passage “the humble shall inherit the earth” is one of the bible’s most widely recognized and noble teachings, originating in Chapter 37 of the book of Psalms. Using the original Hebrew text, my approach to setting it was to excerpt four other phrases from the same chapter to lead up to this…
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PROGRAM NOTE VERTICALS is a seventeen-minute solo piano work in one movement, which can be divided into several interlocking sections roughly suggesting an exposition / contrast / recapitulation / coda formal plan. All materials of the work, however, originate from the opening sonority—a vertical structure (chord) comprising eight notes (though containing only six of the…
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PROGRAM NOTE Lyre of Orpheus was composed for Concertante, the New York-based string sextet, for its ONE PLUS FIVE Project, a three-year, six-composer commissioning project designed to create six string sextets, each featuring one of Concertante core players. This particular commission was made with the goal of giving center-stage to the ensemble’s first cello (Concertante’s…
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