For Tenor Violin And Drone-Three Songs was expertly composed by Nico Muhly.There is a two-note drone that sounds throughout this piece’s 15-minute duration. In the first part of the songs the Tenor and the Violin exchange lyrical and declamatory statements.The second part is a song without words: a sort of dance for solo Violin. The third part has the Violin intoning a pair of notes while the tenor sings in essence a list.The work was commissioned by violinist Tatiana Berman on French surrealist poems of her choosing and was premiered at the Constella Festival in Cincinnati in 2012.
