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Art, Cello, Classical Music, Contemplation, Creativity, Emotions, Inspiration, Joy, Life, Music, Music Composers, Music Composition, Music Performance, New Compositions, New Music, New York Composer, New York Music, Petr Kotik, S.E.M. Ensemble, String Quartet, Strings, Viola, Violin
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with the string quartet of the S.E.M. Ensemble under the direction of Petr Kotik in their annual Workshop & Reading of New Works. Pauline Kim Harris, violin, Lynn Bechtold, violin, David Gold, viola, Brian Snow, cello, presented my Three Monologues for String Quartet.
Surge, Cantabile, and Expletivo portray a wide range of human emotions, from conflicting, dissonant, and aggressive, through delicate, fragile, and innocent. The harmonic language of the Monologues oscillates between Schoenbergian post-tonalism, quartal jazz sonorities, and, at times, hard rock riffs. The present live recording features the second movement – Cantabile.
