A quiet introspection and contemplation of life in the hours of evening twilight. – RW
(Originally composed for violinist, Eva Ingolf’s call for short works for solo violin.)
Video performance features violinist Barbora Kolářová at the TURN UP Multimedia Festival, virtual concert, Univ of AZ.
“Video poem” features: Eva Ingolf, Violin; Poetry by Gunnbjorg Oladottir and Video by Rakel Steinarsdottir. (And the English translation of the poem.)
After Thought
An emotional reflection – surfacing after a thought just a moment past.
(Audio is a home recording by violinist Sylvia Ahramjian.)
Rhythm Modes
2015 CD Release: ELEMENTS RISING, Navona Records features Moravian Philharmonic musicians: Vit Muzik, Jakab Látal, violins; Dominika Muzikova, viola; Marian Pavlik, cello.
Program Note: The “modes” in Rhythm Modes include clocklike ostinato, canonic imitation and repetitions out of phase with either the meter or another instrument’s version of the same line. These rhythmic “modes” play upon the surface of the music in a lively intertwining of motives and melodies.
2001 Concert video features: Vita Wallace & Theresa Salomon, vlns; Liuh-Wen Ting, vla; Ariane Lallemand, vc.
Night Stream
2nd Release: PASSAGES THROUGH TIME, recorded by Moravian Philharmonic violinists: Antonín Hradil, and Jakab Látal, PARMA Recordings.
Reflecting on the flow of life and time, imagined impressionistically as lights streaming across a rain-streaked window on a late night taxi ride through city streets. –RW
Cable TV performance video features Miolina: Mioi Takeda & Lynn Bechtold
(YouTube Music track features violinists, Sylvia Ahramjian and Emily Hanna Crane performing at the 2014 PARMA Music Festival)
A Dance of Two
(Audio features violinists, Anna Cromwell & Lisa Nelson from the Albany Records release “Dancing on Glass“)
This work was expanded into the orchestral work, Within a Dance – a tone poem of love, included on Dream Vapors, Navona Records.
This work was also premiered as a version for an ensemble of violinists taking the two parts, led by violinist, Sylvia Ahramjian at the Encontro Internacional de Cordas Festival in Brazil.
World News – carnival spin
Program note: Commenting on the media carnival spin overlaid onto the news. –RW
2001 Concert performance audio features: Theresa Salomon & Vita Wallace, vlns; Liuh-Wen Ting, vla; Ariane Lallemand, vc; Joseph Kubera, pno.
Walking on Wires
An anxious lament for love lost. The emotional context begins from a point of sadness and feeling that there is no escape, then transmutes into edgy feelings of anger against the emotional pain. It takes musical inspiration from the plainsong, “Dies Irae”.
