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In this work, the first movement uses two Basque melodies (one of which is a Basque lullaby whose text contains only Basque nonsense words) for the first group and a “Bulgarianized” version of a Hungarian folk melody for the second in this short sonata form. The second movement is an arrangement of a 14th century melody by Guillaume de Machault, and the last owes something to Scandinavian folk music (the obscure title refers to a favorite Finnish dill-infused salad dressing that I like to make on occasion).

Music for Viola and Piano is dedicated to Rudolf Haken, Rachel Jensen, and my counterpoint teacher, Jack Melby.

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Persephone is an abstract work for String Quartet. While the piece is not programmatic, the title did influence the piece, effecting the mood and the musical material.


Persephone was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus in classical Mythology. Hades abducted her and took her back with him to the underworld. As a result, Demeter, the goddess of the Earth, became so upset that plants stopped growing as she searched everywhere for her lost daughter. To stop Earth from dying, Zeus forced Hades to return Persephone. However, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, which forced her to return to the underworld for a season each year. As a result, for four months each year, Persephone returned to the underworld and the earth became barren.


The piece begins with a number of different musical fragments which are developed and integrated throughout the piece and interspliced with a number of other sections. The conceptual images of moving between two different worlds evoked swirling chromatic semiquaver sections and the sense of viewing the world from another place added to the sense of distortion and fragmentation which is a feature of the work.

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So begins ‘La Vuelta al Reino Extranjero’, performed by the greatest son huasteco trio in Mexico, Los Camperos de Valles. Comprising the virtuosic violinist Heliodoro Copado, Marcos Hernandez’ extraordinary falsetto and the jarana guitar playing of Gregorio Solano, this trio sizzles to the words of a legendary trovador, Serapio El Gero Nieto. Rhythmic sleights-of-hand twist an already complex argument of two against three into an intoxicating ‘journey to a foreign kingdom’. The words of each verse were extemporized, the last line of each repeated as the first of the next, in an endless chain of surreal connections. Snap is a musical tourist’s album of this virtuosic performance.

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