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"The concerts freshest sounds came from Donald Crockett's dreamily lyrical To Be Sung on the Water...whose parts slip in and out of sync with each other. Silences provide breath and shape, sometimes suggesting Morton Feldman's airy designs and sometimes a kind of accidental Gothic Americana." --Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times. Recorded by the Stanford String Quartet, Laurel Record CD LR-858.
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Violin, Viola
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Written for Michelle Makarski and Ronald Copes
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"To Be Sung on the Water" was written for Michelle Makarski and Ronald Copes and was completed in January 1988, in Los Angeles. The title of the piece, which became increasingly insistent during its composition, refers to vocal works of the same name by Franz Schubert and Samuel Barber. There are no musical references to these earlier pieces, but the sense of the title, of singing on water, is present throughout. The music unfolds in a series of stanzas, generally increasing in length, and separated by silence. Though mostly quiet and gentle, a more agitated section occurs toward the middle of the work. Double-stops (playing on two strings simultaneously) and non-synchronous rhythms predominate (as water images), but the central section features a melody presented as an unaccompanied line. The piece closes with a return to the shorter phrases of the opening. --Donald Crockett
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Recorded by the Stanford String Quartet, Laurel Record CD LR-858.
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"The concerts freshest sounds came from Donald Crockett's dreamily lyrical To Be Sung on the Water...whose parts slip in and out of sync with each other. Silences provide breath and shape, sometimes suggesting Morton Feldman's airy designs and sometimes a kind of accidental Gothic Americana." --Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times "The real high points of the evening, though, were two gorgeous works by the West Coast composer Donald Crockett. There’s a great naturalness and effortlessness in Crockett’s writing, and "to be sung on the water", a hymn-like duet performed by violinist Adkins, with Abigail Evans on viola had a kind of distant, otherworldly glow, like nymphs singing from some underwater realm." ----Stephen Brookes, The Washington Post
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