Spirited

MIRIAM HYDE
String Trio (1932) ~14 min.

Lenelle Morse, Violin
Lisa Humphrey, Viola
Sam Sinai, Cello

Miriam Hyde was an Australian composer and an active recitalist, teacher, examiner, lecturer and poet. Listen here to the Hague Trio’s recording of this beautiful trio by Ms. Hyde. The trio believes this work was never performed in public in her lifetime.

In the composer’s own words:
“I feel my music can be a refuge for what beauty and peace can still be omnipresent…the triumph of good over evil. I make no apologies for writing from the heart.”

GOLFAM KHAYAM
Duo for Flute and Guitar, World Premier

Mehrdad Gohlami, Flute
Eli Schille-Hudson, Guitar

Golfam Kayam is a living Iranian composer and guitarist whose compositional language is rooted in Persian music while seeking a path between the worlds of the east and west. She is a friend of our own Mehrdad Gohlami! Check out her website and listen to some of her music on Spotify.

ALEXANDRE SCHUBERT
Cidade das Águas for Flute and Guitar (2001) ~12 min.

Mehrdad Gohlami, Flute
Eli Schille-Hudson, Guitar

Alexandre Schubert is a living Brazilian composer, teaching at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a composer of many styles and varied sounds. We are excited to have Eli and Mehrdad share his work “Cities of Water” with us.

In the composer’s own words:
“These days, my credo would be the freedom to write what you want. I think if we don’t have freedom, we end up stifling our creativity. The only thing that I really don’t like to write, because I just don’t like it, is something completely tonal, with triads. I just can’t do it. I can’t write a chord in C major, C-E-G. I have just given up on it — I can’t. Only if they forced me”

Listen on YouTube:

W.A. MOZART
Clarinet Quintet in A major (1789) ~30 min.

Erika Block, Clarinet
Dawn Posey & Lenelle Morse, Violins
Eric Kean, Viola
Rose Bellini, Cello

H.C. Robbins Landon, in his book Mozart: The Golden Years (Schirmer Books, 1989), describes the quintet: “…parts of it seem to reflect a state of aching despair, but the whole is clothed not in some violent minor key, but in radiant A major. The music smiles through the tears… ”

In the composer’s own words:
“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I.”