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Recorded by Michelle Makarski and Ronald Copes, ECM 1871. The title "mickey finn" is taken from an American slang expression originating in the criminal Chicago underworld of the early 20th century. It refers to a drugged beverage slipped to an unsuspecting customer in a bar and hence, by extension, a double-cross, a sucker punch, a sudden and involuntary change of plans. "Mickey" is also a nickname for Michelle Makarski. All these senses are palpable in Crockett's music, with its unexpected shifts of character and with its forthright mode of address that seems to fit perfectly its performer and dedicatee.
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Commissioned by Michelle Makarski
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Here the vernacular asserts itself fully: a dotted-rhythm style of fiddling (an Irish echo?), and a title taken from an American slang expression originating in the criminal Chicago underworld of the early 20th century. A mickey finn was, or is, a drugged beverage slipped to an unsuspecting customer in a bar and hence, by extension, a double-cross, a sucker punch, a sudden and involuntary change of plans; "Mickey" is also a nickname for Michelle Makarski. All these senses are palpable in Crockett's music, with its unexpected shifts of character and with its forthright mode of address that seems to fit perfectly its performer and dedicatee. The shifts of mood are many: a sudden, cadenza-like passage; a chorale related not to Tartini but clearly (and says the composer, consciously) to Bach; another music marked feroce. --Notes by Steven Stucky
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First performance: October 1996 — Michelle Makarski, Los Angeles, CA
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Recorded by Michelle Makarski, ECM 1871.
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