Textures

Franz Schubert: String Trio in B-flat Major, D.471
(1797-1828)
Allegro
Andante Sostenuto

Neubauer, Arron, Setzer

Joan Tower: To Sing or Dance (premiere)
(b. 1938)

Frautschi, Third Coast Percussion

Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
(1906-1975)
Andante – Moderato
Allegro con brio
Largo
Allegretto – Adagio

Chien, Josefowicz, Watkins

To Sing or Dance was commissioned by GLCMF, Chamber Music Northwest and Emerald City Music.

Texture is about the particular way things feel; etymology, then, might be thought of as a kind of exercise in historical textures, the way sounds accrue intuitive feeling in the fabric knit by language and the world. Reading across etymology is a way of seeing how texture connects the most unlikely of cohabitants. Read more…

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