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2024
Cello
Electronics
- Program Notes
- Face to Face (Cadenza) for solo cello considers the classical-period cadenza, and the process of finding musical freedom in improvisation. Using graphic and text-based notations, I provide a broad framework, guided by thematic and harmonic fragments of the first movement of Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major. I draw from Edwin Prévost’s characterization of free improvisation as a search for “self-invention and social-invention,” and from Judith Butler from Undoing Gender, wherein she states that gender can be seen as “improvisation within a scene of constraint.” Just as it is up to us to determine how we engage with boundaries of art, identity, or gender, it is up to the performer to determine how they relate to the boundaries I have provided, if they choose to do so at all.
- Performer Credits
- Solomon Kim