Pas de Deux (for cello and piano)
$25.00
This virtuosic and programmatic one movement work is a portrait of an evolving partnership beginning with youthful exuberance, passing through rumination on loss, and culminating in a state of complex yearning: the desire to make ephemeral love timeless and permanent.
Description
This virtuosic and programmatic work is a portrait of an evolving partnership beginning with youthful exuberance, passing through rumination on loss, and culminating in a state of complex yearning: the desire to make ephemeral love timeless and permanent. It began as a commission from Pamela Dillon for her husband Stephen’s birthday. It grew into much more, through the dark times of 2001, and finally as the centerpiece of their remarriage in 2024. The work is one movement divided into four sections: I. Prologue; II. Youth; III. The Limits of Life, a. Dialogue and b. How Time Ends; and IV. Pas de Deux. Cello soloists have included Semyon Fridman, Maria Kitsopoulos, Fred Sherry, and Thomas Mesa. For more info about this work click here.
Materials (score & parts) are available as downloadable PDF files.
