Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope / Orchestral • 2022

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)

Orchestral
For Mezzo and Full Orchestra

World Premiere: July 8, 2022
Commissioned by Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

First Performance: mezzo Sasha Cooke, violinist Benjamin Beilman, youth violinist Thais Chernyavski, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and conductor Cristian Macelaru
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Duration: 40’

Resources

Overview
Chamber Version
Instrumentation
Program Note
Recordings
Scores

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

Originally commissioned by Music at Kohl Mansion and made possible by a 2017 Hewlett 50 Arts Commission 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