Violin and piano

SKU: B9.782

Composed by Laura Kaminsky. This edition: saddle stitch. Score and part. Duration ca. 29 minutes. Bill Holab Music #782. Published by Bill Holab Music (B9.782).

9 x 12 inches.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin

SKU: PR.114423360

Composed by Stacy Garrop. Set of Score and Parts. 24+12+12 pages. Duration 8:30. Theodore Presser Company #114-42336. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114423360).

UPC: 680160686285.

When the Newport Music Festival commissioned me for a piano trio in honor of their 2021 season, I looked for a topic that would celebrate an aspect of the Newport community. While researching the area, I was struck by the nine lighthouses situated around the island. The dual nature of lighthouses was particularly appealing to me: not only do they serve a vital role in the navigation of ships around rocks and land, but they are also a beautiful sight, particularly at night when their blinking beacons are clearly visible to the eye. It occurred to me that lighthouses link the past with the present, and will endure long into the future, with their beacons serving the same purpose for every generation.I became fascinated with the lighthouse on the property of Castle Hill Inn, located at the opening of the East Passage of the Narragansett Bay. This squat thirty-four foot granite structure was erected in 1890 on a very picturesque spot, right at the water’s edge. Its “characteristic,” the nautical term for each lighthouse’s unique light sequence that allows ships to identify the lighthouse, is to alternate on for three seconds, then off for three seconds. The lighthouse has also served as the starting and finish line for numerous high profile yacht races, as well as survived a massive hurricane in 1938, though the lighthouse keeper’s nearby residence wasn’t so lucky. American novelist Thornton Wilder wrote much of his 1973 novel Theophilus North while staying at the Castle Hill Inn; a passage from the book perfectly captures the dual nature of lighthouses:“At a later visit I was able to engage the pentagonal room in a turret above the house; from that magical room I could see at night the beacons of six lighthouses and hear the booming and chiming of as many sea buoys.”In Beacon of the Bay, we first hear the lighthouse’s characteristic as its ruby light blinks on and off. This is followed by a simple theme that represents the lighthouse performing its solitary duty. As the piece progresses, we hear waves playfully lapping around its base, then yachts gracefully floating by; this is followed by a violent storm that churns the waves with so much force that they crash against the lighthouse’s granite body. But the steadfast lighthouse holds firm to the rocks, grandly blinking its ruby light. The music quiets back down to its simple theme, with yachts sailing by once more as the piece concludes.

Violin and Piano

SKU: AY.VLP3237PM

Composed by Herbert Rothgarber. Strings - Violin. Score & Parts. Duration 17'. Periferia Publishing #VLP3237PM. Published by Periferia Publishing (AY.VLP3237PM).

ISBN 9790543574014.

It may be said to represent an attempt, by the composer, to reconcile the yearnings of soul with the restricting and conflicting tensions of earthly existence.

Movt. 1 (Adrift)
We find ourselves adrift in the ocean of life, flung about mercilessly by the tempestuous waves. We try to find meaning.

Movt. 2 (In The Stillness)
We glimpse the shadow of another possibility, - an otherness.

Movt. 3 (Whirling)
Everything, from the tiniest atom to the heavenly bodies, is in a perpetual state of whirling. Our lives are spent whirling to the Waltz Of Existence.

Movt. 4 (Another Place, Another Time)
So much of our inner lives is spent in the movement of memories. We are forever seeking relief from the anxieties of the present, in the nostalgia of the past.

Movt. 5 (Earth Song)
We celebrate our earthly existence.

Violin and Piano. By Edward Huws Jones. (Violin). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Size 9x12 inches. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.

Violin, piano

SKU: BR.EB-9250

Composed by Nicolaus A. Huber. Solo instruments; stapled. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Toronto, November 17, 2016Written for the Duo Wapiti (Genevieve Liboiron, Daniel Anez)

New music (post-2000); Music post-1945. Performance score. Composed 2016. 12 pages. Duration 12'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9250. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9250).

ISBN 9790004185506. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Whereas Nono considered the world to be only fragmentarily analyzable, so-called consumer capitalism increasingly intrudes upon ego structures, by fragmenting them to the point of: assumed insufficiency, i.e., was consumption a form of infiltration?, or: in television you can see models licking face cream because it's so rich etc. (retranslated), as Meredith Haaf cited in her book review (SZ / 23.05.2016 Alexandra Kleeman: You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine) , and to the point of similar perfection-senselessness. Music doesn't do things by halves. Even when events or notes are puffed up, they can retain elegance and significance. Other ego amplitudes are of violinistic nature or are favourite memories - Paganini's Capricci, Stockhausen's Studie I, Steve Reich, the tone C and similar things. The craziest egos are quantums, because at no time are they identical with themselves. They can entangle and superpose, are nonlocal, etc. Although the sound character in this Duo is fairly open, I believe I succeeded in making probability waves of harmonic stopovers perceptible. This means hearing without analyzing and without constantly measuring. Nonlocality - without messenger particles - means no harmonic steps, but with the capacity to interact. (Nicolaus A. Huber, May 2016)

World premiere: Toronto, November 17, 2016 Written for the Duo Wapiti (Genevieve Liboiron, Daniel Anez).