Motherless (2021) | unaccompanied viola | 8:00
Commissioned by Carlos Boltes, who premiered it May 2021, Harford CT.
The piece is a fantasy/variation on two intertwining pieces: the slow movement of Antonin Dvorak’s American Quartet,op. 96, and the African-American spiritual Motherless Child. It was composed at the request of Carlos Boltes, to whom it is dedicated.
Commissioned by Carlos Boltes, who premiered it May 2021, Harford CT.
The piece is a fantasy/variation on two intertwining pieces: the slow movement of Antonin Dvorak’s American Quartet,op. 96, and the African-American spiritual Motherless Child. It was composed at the request of Carlos Boltes, to whom it is dedicated.
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