search for compositions : view previous composition list
| Middlebury, Ohio | |
| Date Completed: | December 14, 2003 |
| Duration: | about 4 minutes |
| Instrumentation: | violin |
| First Performance: | RZ, violin, November 14, 2004 at Church of Our Saviour, Akron Ohio |
| Comments: | in memory of my uncle, George Kalial |
| Program Notes: | Middlebury, Ohio is a memorial for both the 19th century (now disappeared) Ohio village and my my uncle George Kalial The entire piece is written for the D string of the violin except for a passage of dancing harmonics near the end which is marked "lights twinkling in the distance at night". That image is associated with the earliest memories I have - of the strange longing I felt at seeing lights in the distance (perhaps imagining the lives of "others" so illuminated) and of my uncle, who could spin a story out of the wispiest of threads. r z |
| Sound Excerpt: | 
|