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Music of Christian Wolff, jan. 29 - 11:54am-12:08pm

Lisa and Brian McWhorter present Duo 6 for violin and trumpet written for them by Christian Wolff.

About Duo 6:

The music, made for Lisa and Brian McWhorter, the unlikely combination of violin and trumpet (though Gabrieli has pieces with a dozen sackbuts and 2 violins), sets side by side 7 patches of material, variously made (e.g . specifically notated coordinations, both metrically conventional and hocket-like with indeterminate durations; independent procedure of each player - by ear and choice, sometimes each using the same material in free sequence, sometimes using independent material; using kinds of tablature - indicating only strings of violin (open or fingered) and valve positions of trumpet, specifying only rhythms and dynamics, or melodic direction, but not particular pitches). All this, though I've used these various procedures before, is here, in the light of the instrumental and structural combinations, exploratory.

notes by the composer