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Duo
2016
11 min.
Cello
Violin
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- Program Notes
- Written for an Open House Chicago! site event for the fall of 2016 to honor, reimagine, and capture the milieu of the Colvin House in Chicago. So, sit back, relax and enjoy this “imagined milieu”— From the Mists of Time and Building, Living, Decline and Resurrection— that has occurred in the Colvin House over the years after its original con- struction in the early Twentieth Century. The inspiration for the piece has come from the composer imagining the house arising “From the Mists of Time” and being built in the early Twentieth Century and then being occupied for some years by residents, “Living,” then falling into decline and being resurrected into a new use: “Decline and Resurrection.” In each of sections the composer has attempted to create a musical milieu that reflects “activities” that might have taken place during the history of the house: the house is built and “arises” from the earth, people occupy the house, and it comes alive with general activity, with maybe some dancing (a tango and a waltz at a certain point); the house goes into decline and people leave—it is abandoned— but then it gets resuscitated and is alive again with activity. And so it goes . . .
- Recording Notes
- Live Performance
- Ensemble Name
- Charmian Stewart, violin; Anne Lerner, cello