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Judith Zaimont - Virgie Rainey : Two Narratives |
Virgie Rainey portrays an independent, willful young woman, limned in reflection by her response to two emotional pivot points, one deeply saddening, and the other rather frivolous. In Narrative One, Virgie learns of the death of someone close to her and then proceeds as if in a trance, down to the river to immerse herself in sorrow. The tale is told in fragments of interrupted chant, mirroring Virgie's unconscious yet urgent journey by gradual and inexorable shifts to ever-faster tempi. Narrative Two is a comic tale of Virgie's love-hate relationship with the piano. |
Judith Zaimont - 'Tanya' Poems |
In writing this piece for Tanya, Judith wanted to convey the performer's large artistic presence - dramatic, expressive and technically adroit. Couplet proposes two duos of contrast: long notes which swell then scuttle away, and expansive triple-stop sonorities resting harmonically in place. In the six sections of Sestina, the cello carries on a chromatic conversation with itself. From indistinct mutterings kept within discrete registers, to sections in harmonics and rapid pizzicato, the instrument is put through it's paces at rapid speed. The final section's conversation becomes whimsical and tonal. |