Publisher
Presser

Year of Composition
1979

Duration
22'

Instrumentation
Violin, cello, piano

Categories
Ballet, trio

Program Note

Other Selves was commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 1979 and choreographed by Lynn Taylor-Corbett. It is based on a series of sculptures by Marjorie Michaels called A Woman’s Journey which portray typical scenes in a woman’s life. The work is divided into seven movements and the structure is theme and variations. Each instrument has a solo movement, interspersed by tutti movements. ----Victoria Bond

Based on sculptures by Marjorie Michael entitled, A Woman's Journey, portraying vignettes of ordinary scenes from a woman’s life. The musical structure is a theme and variations. Each variation, which is a separate movement, becomes a new theme to be varied with its own set of internal variations, creating a macrocosm/microcosm unified by the single musical cell of the theme.

I. Introduction/ Praeludium

II. Country Fiddle

III. Passacaglia

IV. Mechanical Dolls

V. Ray

VI. Monologue

VII. Finale

Audio/Video

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