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| Washington Mews | |
| Date Completed: | November 14, 1986 |
| Duration: | about 12 and a half minutes |
| Instrumentation: | violin, viola, cello and piano |
| Comments: | to Chip Stewart, Richard Sennett, Glen Morton - for the winter time |
| Program Notes: | Washington Mews was written between the 9th and 14th November 1986 in New York City for informal gatherings at Richard Sennett's house in the Washington Mews in Greenwich Village. It is dedicated to the friends I used to meet there for dinner and music-making: Chip Stewart (viola), Richard Sennett (cello) and Glenn Morton (piano) "for the wintertime". We would often play the Faure Piano Trio, op.121 - a very late work of the French master - and I wanted to see if I could write a work that would complement the trio and echo its classic beauty. The work is notable for a rare and surprisingly single-minded climax in the first part which is based on a "carved subject" which pervades nearly every work I wrote at that time. live performance by entelechron with Jerry Miskell - viola, David Russell-cello, Rob frankenberry - piano, and the composer - violin |