This is amazing, it takes something for a person to be able to play both! Love your work!!

Justine Aronson - soprano
Conor Frost - boy soprano
Theodosia Roussos - oboe
Hope Wilk - harp
Mark Stewart - mandolin/musical saw
Thomas Kotcheff - piano
Eric Shuster, Josh Graham, Evan Saddler - percussion

Rather than building phrases, the music lingers on single gestures—bending pitches, fading attacks, and isolated breaths—creating a sense of suspended time. It resists momentum, drawing the listener into a space where sound seems to question its own presence.

Percussions: Gilles DUROT, Samuel FAVRE, Victor HANNA (Ensemble intercontemporain) / Matthieu DRAUX, Adelaide FERRIERE, Jean-Baptiste BONNARD, Noam BIERSTONE, Christophe DRELICH, Julien LACROUZADE, Thibault LEPRI, Sylvain BORREDON, Othman LOUATI

Piano: Sébastien VICHARD

The piece was commissioned by the Group for Contemporary Music and premiered by Charles Wuorinen, Harvey Sollberger, and Joel Krosnick, February 18, 1963.

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“He returned to Japan in 1961. His recent opera has been performed in Japan and Europe.“

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Interview: AC, New York City, 16 February 1985.

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Her work has been recognized by the Fromm, Koussevitzky, and Guggenheim Foundations, her music has been performed by the Jubal Trio, Parnassus, the Group for Contemporary Music, Speculum Musicae. Her work has been commissioned and performed by San Francisco Symphony and is published by C.F. Peters.