The Moments: Album for Interpolation
(2004) for piano trio
Program Note:
"This
performance of (insert
name of other trio/composer here)
incorporates some material I wrote called “Album for
Interpolation,” which essentially serves as a sort of
pictureframe for any pre-existing piano trio.
The
material is designed to be compatible with any piano trio,
especially those written in the common era
(classical/romantic). There is a prelude, postlude, and two
interludes, as well as (in this case) a small alteration of
a very brief part of the original music. The various parts
of the “Album” are partially intended to
reflect, in a tonally versatile way, what most likely
occurs in the narrative of the older piece.
The most striking feature, however, is of course the ways
in which my foreign material differs from the pre-existing.
The “Album” music was written to exploit the
physical nature of the ensemble (intonational differences,
etc.): exactly that which is painstakingly smoothed over in
the common era, to hide the inherent difficulties in the
ensemble’s playing together.
It is my notion that antique music coupled with mine in
this fashion with enhance both, in much the same fashion as
the Louvre’s Pyramid by I.M. Pei enhances it, or the
chance sighting of a painting lying in the street is
infinitely fresher than anything seen during a well-planned
trip to one’s favorite museum."
Listen
to a recording (with
Sibelius):
01 Album for
Interpolation
Get the score:
AlbumforInterpolation