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Fixtures in Switzerland
June 6, 2014 – dissonArt ensemble performed Fixtures for violin, cello, and contrabass, at the FORUM WALLIS Contemporary Music Festival in Leuk, Switzerland.
Sisters Face West
for violin and violoncello
This piece was inspired by two sisters dealing with the loss of a loved one. Each instrument represents one of the sisters, who initially have very different attitudes and cannot communicate with each other. As the piece progresses the two lines interact, working through various stages of grief together.
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Ode to a Nightingale
for SATB chorus and violoncello
The text for Ode to a Nightingale is taken from a poem of the same name by John Keats. Writing in the spring of 1819, the twenty-three-year-old Keats had watched his brother die of tuberculosis only a few months earlier and was now ill himself. The poem expresses a love of nature but also a revulsion to the natural world and a desire to escape from it.
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