Doubles
Jonathan Berger
About this work:
Commissioned by the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Society for the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Recording to be released Spring 2007 on Naxos, American Master's Miracles and Mud: Music for strings by Jonathan Berger
program notes:
Doubles recalls songs of peace, freedom and resistance that were influential in my youth. Some of the references are readily identifiable, others obscured.
The title 'Doubles' refers to the seventeenth century practice of pairing a short piece with a highly embellished version of itself. The doubles in the quartet consist of three pairs of ornamentl variations. In each double a new theme emerges. This theme is itself ornamented in the subsequent section, thus creating two simultaneous shifted sets of doubles.
The work was commissioned by the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle for the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
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Duration: 00:00:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:String Quartet
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