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Score & Part
Joy in a Minor Key : for violin and piano / Elena Kats-Chernin.
Library shelf no. 787.2/KAT 13 [Available for loan]
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Joy in a minor key : for clarinet in Bb and piano [eScore] / Elena Kats-Chernin.
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Work Overview
Initially, Catherine Hawkins commissioned 'Joy' in 2018 to mark the 50th birthday of her husband David Windsor and to celebrate his inspirational survival from a random attack in 2017. However, the purpose of the commission had broadened after I played the first draft of 'Joy' over the phone to Catherine. Unknowingly, I had written a piece evoking the memory of Catherine's mother, for whom music brought great joy. And so Catherine and David dedicated 'Joy' to the memory of Margaret Anne Hawkins (O'Brien) 13.1.1937-13.1.2017. "Mother. Music-lover. Much-missed."
While composing Joy in a Minor Key I attempted to achieve a fleeting, light, poetic, almost never "touching the ground" quality. The piece is written in my favourite form of rondo waltz with a coda.
— Elena Kats-Chernin
Work Details
Year: 2018, this version: 2021
Instrumentation: Violin, piano.
Dedication note: for Catherine and David in memory of Margaret, lover of music
Performances of this work
7 May 2023: at Kismet: Vignettes for Violin and Piano (Blue Mountains Theatre). Featuring Vov Dylan, Clemens Leske.
7 Jul 18: featuring Magdalenna Krstevska, Elena Kats-Chernin.
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