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Some Thoughts on Good and Evil (2009) was commissioned by Joan Margot Smith for the Claremont Trio, and I would like to thank Joan and Emily, Julia, and Donna, for this honor and opportunity. Their generosity and thoughtfulness is fundamental to my work and inspiration.
The music of Some Thoughts on Good and Evil is an elaboration and expansion on musical materials and ideas I first developed in a setting of Langston Hughes’s Harlem written in 2009 (movement one of the trio), and two settings of William Blake’s The Tyger (prelude and song) written in 2008 (movements 2 and 3). With those two songs and prelude I try to consider, as Hughes’s and Blake’s words do, the emotional difficulty of understanding a world where there exists both good and evil and the complex emotions that such vulnerability evokes. With this piano trio I attempt to reflect further upon and to articulate an emotional argument considering this very human problem.
— Howard Frazin (2010)
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WordSong Concert
Gabriele Diaz, violin
Rafael Popper Keizer, cello
Elizabeth Schumann, piano
St. Paul’s Church
Brookline, MA
June 29, 2014 -
Rockport Music
Matthew Woodard, violin
John Belk, cello
Annie Jeong, piano
Shalin Liu Performance Center
Rockport, MA
June 27, 2014 -
WordSong Concert
Gabriele Diaz, violin
Rafael Popper Keizer, cello
Elizabeth Schumann, piano
Goethe Institute
Boston, MA
June 27, 2014 -
WFMT’s Rushhour Concerts
Live broadcast and worldwide livestream
John Macfarlane, violin
Brant Taylor, cello
Winston Choi, piano
June 17, 2014 -
Rushhour Concerts Summer Series
John Macfarlane, violin
Brant Taylor, cello
Winston Choi, piano
St. James Cathedral
Chicago, IL
June 17, 2014 -
Bard Conservatory Chamber Music Series
Matthew Woodard, violin
John Belk, cello
Annie Jeong, piano
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
May 3, 2014 -
The Westmoor Club
Matthew Woodard, violin
Pall Quinn Kalmansson, cello
Deborah Emery, piano
Nantucket, MA
July 26, 2012 -
Dinosaur Annex
Gabriela Diaz, violin
David Russell, cello
Hugh Hinton, piano
Goethe Institute
Boston, MA
April 29, 2012 -
Dallas Chamber Music Concert Series (Premiere)
The Claremont Trio
Latino Cultural Center
Dallas, TX
February 8, 2010 -
WRR101 Dallas Chamber Music’s Spotlight on Chamber Music (Premiere)
Broadcast and interview
The Claremont Trio
Dallas, TX
January 29, 2010