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The Grand Canyon Project: Music for Solo Cello
Rhonda Rider, cello
MSR Classics [MS 1462]
World Premiere Recordings
Program Note
Back in the late ’80s my brother saw an alien spaceship near the airport with my grandmother. This was after he thought he was Jesus and before he got the idea into his head that when our grandmother died he would rent a balloon and fly over the Grand Canyon to scatter her ashes. My grandmother died many years later when she was ninety-nine and left her body to science. With this lullaby, no balloon, no ashes, just the lilt of a memory wafting up and over the canyon rim.
— Howard Frazin (2011)
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Taft-Nicholson Center
University of Utah
Lakeview, MT
August 12, 2016
Stefan Koch, cello
Music from Salem
Hubbard Hall
Cambridge, NY
November 12, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
Wupatki National Monument
Visitor Center
Flagstaff, AZ
October 7, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
Grand Canyon National Monument
Shrine of the Ages
Grand Canyon, AZ
October 6, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
Boston Conservatory
Studio 401
Boston, MA
September 24, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
Cary Institute
Westbrook, NY
September 23, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
September 21, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
Imagination Celebration
Fort Worth, TX
May 2–6, 2011 (six performances)
Rhonda Rider, cello
Boston Conservatory
Boston, MA
March 10, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
Sully Hall
Grand Canyon National Park (Premiere)
Shrine of the Ages
Grand Canyon, AZ
February 24, 2011
Rhonda Rider, cello
Children’s Concert