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Persona
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for piano (1980)
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" a
haunting atmosphere" (Boston Phoenix)
" interesting
and well-shaped" (Concord Journal)
Nevelson, First Personage
The title, Persona,
refers to the artist's search for a 'voice' and was inspired by Louise
Nevelson's pivotal sculpture, First Personage. Imbedded in
the music are quotations from pieces that had a strong and very personal
significance. Structurally, the piece moves from fantasy to
a more rigorous and intense music and then toward fantasy once again
with echoes of the intervening sounds.
Commissioned in 1980 for premiere by Vivian
Taylor at the First International Congress on Women in Music in
New York City, the piece
received support from Smith College, Meet the Composer and a private
patron, Mrs. Gardner Cox. In 1986 Beth Soll choreographed the work
for her own solo performance in Paris and in 1987 reworked the choreography
for three members of the Beth
Soll & Company for performances
in Boston and Washington, D.C.
Persona has received subsequent
performances at Wellesley College, the Longy School of Music, MIT,
Royal Festival Hall in London,
and a broadcast performance on Dutch Radio. Pianist Richard
Reber has performed the work at the Mannheimer Piano Festival at
the University of Minnesota, the University of Kansas, and at the
American Matthay Association in Georgia. Kathleen Supové played
the piece at the Fourth International Women's Music Congress in Atlanta. And
long-time friend, Christine Paraschos, gave stunning performances
of Persona at IRCAM, the
Cité International des Arts and the Salle Cortot in Paris.
See score
sample below.
To order the
score: elizvercoe@yahoo.com
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Christine Paraschos
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