Tag: Peabody Trio

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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VERTICALS for Piano (1982)

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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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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