Commissions
"Much of A Series of Interdependencies was written in response to unease and anger, but all of it is infused with the hope that practicing vulnerability, intimacy, and mutuality with one another alongside radical heterogeneity might be a way into some better, a more utopian vision of the world." - Conrad Tao
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"I love music which is in conversation with itself, and in variations with sand in the gears the cellist gets to be all the voices in a raucous argument."
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This is the sister piece to my previous violin solo, "...your heart dreams of spring" (2020). Both works sing joy and effervescence despite struggle. The full sentence "And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring" is taken from Kahlil Gibran's poem "On Death" from his seminal 1923 book, The Prophet.
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Making Hay inspires positivity—at least while the sun shines. The trio begins with the violin playing a gentle melody reminiscent of a traditional British folk tune. Presently, the music is infused with the spirit of Sebastian Bach in a contrapuntal exchange between all three instruments as the melody is sequenced and extended, gradually incorporating bolder harmonies.
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Jarba, Mare Jarba is a popular traditional Hungarian-Romani folk song. Its text speaks of the longing to return to one’s homeland.
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