Red Herring
Adam Silverman
About this work:
"Red Herring" for unaccompanied cello is a suite of three character pieces composed for cellist Amy Sue Barston. The first, "Leslie," is a perpetual-motion piece that asks the cellist to move into and out of sul ponticello, resembling the effect of a "leslie speaker" - a speaker that created doppler-osciallations by spinning around and was common on Hammond organs in the 1960s. The second, "I love my love with a v" is slow and lyrical, full of double-stops and long phrases; it is a song-setting of a Gertrude Stein poem with words removed. The final movement is "Oswald's Groove," a rock-infused piece with virtuosic use of left-hand pizzicatti.
Year composed: 2003
Duration: 00:12:00
Ensemble type: Solo instrument, non-keyboard:Cello
Instrumentation: 1 Cello
Instrumentation notes: Unaccompanied cello solo