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| Passencore Double | |
| Date Completed: | June 16, 1993 |
| Duration: | about 16 minutes |
| Instrumentation: | violin and 'cello |
| First Performance: | September 7, 1994 by RZ, violin and David Russell, 'cello |
| Program Notes: | Passencore Double was written mostly during spring and early summer of 1993 and is inscribed to the composer and cellist James P. Hinkley. The word "passencore" comes from the first page of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, something about Sir Tristram, a "violer d'amores... had passencore rearrived from North Armorica..." with double meanings from the French: pas encore - not yet, or passe encore - still going on, continuing. The title becomes a password to my duplicitous compositional technique and to those who journey to destinations near and far. David Russell and I gave the first performance in Akron, Ohio on September 7th, 1994, and George Faddoul recorded us in this performance in Ravenna, Ohio, on May 19, 1995. |