Trio for Piano and Strings was commissioned by the Music from Angel Fire festival in 2001 and had its world premiere on 22 August 2001, Melvin C hen, piano, Ida Kavafian, violin, and Peter Wiley, cello.
The piece is a fairly athletic work in three movements. Movements I and Ill are very rhythmic, fast, and hauntingly jazz-like-in a Miles Davis kind of way. The third movement is influenced by jazz and has a quote from Zez Confrey's Kitten on the Keys. The second movement is quite placid, exploiting the rising- and falling-third motif of the first movement, and is free flowing and very quiet.
-LL
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