A Song for Dessa (with apologies to Aaron and Charles) (2010)
Small Chamber Orchestra
(0.1.1.0.1.1.1.0.strings)
Duration: 5 minutes
Program Note
Like many new parents, I developed an entire repertoire of songs to accompany every aspect of my newborn's life, from
going to sleep to eating to changing diapers. Favorites included: 'Here I Am, Baby Dessa,' 'Are You A Nommer?', 'Nice and Clean'
and 'Gorilla, Gorilla, Gorilla'. Over the course of my daughter's first year, these tunes became more and more pervasive
in my musical life. They appeared as dictations in an Ear Training class I was teaching; I used them as examples for
harmonization in a theory class. While living in Delhi in the fall of 2010, I thought it would be a good idea to finally
enter these songs into the computer for documentation sake. What began as a quick little task, notating a short melody,
eventually became more complicated as it developed into a movement for string quartet and then expanded to become a work
for chamber orchestra, a piece that itself begins simply before eventually growing to take on a life of its own.
Premiere:
Awaiting premiere
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