Looking for Answers
for violin, cello, piano and electronics
premiered February 5, 2011
Mojave Trio: Sara Parkins, violin; Margaret Parkins, cello; Genevieve Feiwen Lee, toy piano
19th Annual Ussachevsky Festival, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
sheet music available at http://composers.com
Recording available on Albany Records and iTunes
Movement II, "Contemplation":
". . . a truly blockbuster piece, and one of the best works I've ever heard that combines electronics with a traditional chamber music scoring and language." |
– Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine |
". . .crystalline in certain moments and speckled with percussive detail at others." |
– Ron Schepper, textura.com |
"Spare, unsettling, but very effective, with its exaggerated amplification and distortion, it is a piano trio haunted by its own shadow." |
-Barnaby Rayfield, Fanfare Magazine |
Looking for Answers augments a standard piano trio of violin, cello, and piano with electronically manipulated sounds derived from the same instruments. The sonorities and certain stubbornly recurring intervallic structures in “Frozen Questions” seek answers with serious but nearly paralyzing determination.
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