Chamber Music Cello
SKU: PR.114402020
Composed by Richard
Wernick. With Standard
notation. 4 pages.
Duration 15 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40202. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114402020).
UPC:
680160005109.
Compo
sed for cellist Barbara
Haffner, CADENZAS AND
VARIATIONS III is based
on the opening of the
composer’s Kaddish
Requiem composed in the
fall of 1971. When
Wernick decided to revise
portions of the
requiem’s first
movement, he became
intrigued with where the
opening cadenza might
lead in a totally
different context,
leading him to use it as
the “themeâ€
for the 1973 work. Much
of the work was written
in the exotic city of Dar
es Salaam in a studio
overlooking a luxuriant
tropical garden of
bouganvillia, hibiscus,
wild orchids, and
flamboyants. None of this
is evident in the music,
not even the
“waltzingâ€
dove which was
wonderfully entertaining
except during working
hours, when he nearly
drove the composer
mad.