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Scored for: marimba solo and string quartet with spoken word and optional digital sound Text: after Gertrude Stein Duration: 14 minutes Premiere: February, 2018 at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
University of Maryland – College Park
Lee Hinkle, marimba/voice, Daniel Foster, viola, Alexandra Osborne, violin, Jane Boyer Stewart, violin, Rachel Young, cello Commissioned by: Global Première Consortium Commissioning Project: Douglas O’Connor and Baljinder Sekhon, co-founders; Lee Hinkle, consortium leader. Published by: Angelfire Press. Distributed by Black Tea Music. Contact Trudy Chan
for score and parts. For questions, contact Andrea:
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NOTES
Within this work are fragments of texts from Gertrude Stein’s 1914 collection of poems “Tender Buttons”. As in Stein’s poetry, there is an obsession with motives. The more the cells appear in different contexts, repetition and variation, the more meaning they may take on for the listener. The motives undergo transformation until they evolve into something new. These particular phrases were chosen because of their related themes: separation, wholeness, order, differentiation and likeness — and how the space between can reveal greater connection between them.
The texts are indicated to be spoken and played by the members of the ensemble. They are also optional. Alternately, the work can be performed with a narrator. It is also possible for the work to be performed with texts projected or in the program. There is an optional digital electronic track for the ending of the work to be played by iPhones placed around the hall, on the stage, or through a sound system. If on stage, players might consider pressing “play” together or slightly staggered, creating a phasing effect. Creative freedom is welcome!
This commission was made possible by Global Première Consortium Commissioning Project: Douglas O’Connor and Baljinder Sekhon, co-founders; Lee Hinkle, consortium leader.
a space between
Scored for: marimba solo and string quartet with spoken word and optional digital sound
Text: after Gertrude Stein
Duration: 14 minutes
Premiere: February, 2018 at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
University of Maryland – College Park
Lee Hinkle, marimba/voice, Daniel Foster, viola, Alexandra Osborne, violin, Jane Boyer Stewart, violin, Rachel Young, cello
Commissioned by: Global Première Consortium Commissioning Project: Douglas O’Connor and Baljinder Sekhon, co-founders; Lee Hinkle, consortium leader.
Published by: Angelfire Press. Distributed by Black Tea Music. Contact Trudy Chan
for score and parts. For questions, contact Andrea:
WATCH
NOTES
Within this work are fragments of texts from Gertrude Stein’s 1914 collection of poems “Tender Buttons”. As in Stein’s poetry, there is an obsession with motives. The more the cells appear in different contexts, repetition and variation, the more meaning they may take on for the listener. The motives undergo transformation until they evolve into something new. These particular phrases were chosen because of their related themes: separation, wholeness, order, differentiation and likeness — and how the space between can reveal greater connection between them.
The texts are indicated to be spoken and played by the members of the ensemble. They are also optional. Alternately, the work can be performed with a narrator. It is also possible for the work to be performed with texts projected or in the program. There is an optional digital electronic track for the ending of the work to be played by iPhones placed around the hall, on the stage, or through a sound system. If on stage, players might consider pressing “play” together or slightly staggered, creating a phasing effect. Creative freedom is welcome!
This commission was made possible by Global Première Consortium Commissioning Project: Douglas O’Connor and Baljinder Sekhon, co-founders; Lee Hinkle, consortium leader.