Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope • 2020

Texts and poetry by Gene Scheer

Inspired, in part, by the book Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust - Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour by James A. Grymes (Published by Harper Perennial)

Solo & Chamber
For Mezzo, Violin, Youth Violin & String Quartet

World Premiere: January 18, 2020
Commissioned by Music at Kohl Mansion

First Performance: mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, violinist Daniel Hope, quartet from the San Francisco Opera Orchestra featuring Kay Stern, Dawn Harms, Patricia Heller, and Emil Miland, with youth solo violinist Sean Mori

Duration: 40’

Resources

Overview
Orchestral Version
Instrumentation
Program Note
Recordings
Scores

1. Ashes
2. Exile
3. Concert
4. Motele
5. Feivel
6. Lament
7. Liberation

Made possible by a 2017 Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions Grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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Available for voice and piano; voice and string quartet; voice and orchestra; and string orchestra