Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1306270220100.678@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Viola^2
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
Viola^2 http://www.alansondheim.org/aja0.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/aja1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/aja2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/aja3.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/aja4.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/aja5.mp3 James Annett: viola Azure Carter: song and voice (aja5) Alan Sondheim: viola, various What's better than one viola? Two violas! No jokes, honestly, the melding of the instruments is amazing. James plays sparsely with every note conjuring up scale and unmarked territory; I tend to fill in my breathing with more breath, to the choking limit. Azure sings beautifully; we worked with one of the older songs. I love these pieces; he extends the saz scales with viola, crawls all around the Cminor harmonic harmonica, roams while the voice sings song. Against the saz, the viola has no equal - clearly it's one of the most beautiful instruments around. Enjoy, if you have the time.