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Tracing (1994)
First Performance

January 1995 Present Music
Paul Gmeinder, cello Kamran Ince, piano
Milwaukee, WI

Instrumentation

cello and piano

Duration

14'

Listen

Tracing



Program Notes

Tracing is commissioned by and written for Paul Gmeinder. Paul Gmeinder is an outstanding cellist who approaches new music like a cellist approaches the Brahms Sonata or the Dvorak Concerto: with incredible passion. I have performed with him a number of times in various works and was very much moved by his passion and love for the “making of music”. So when he commissioned me to write a piece for cello and piano I was really honored, excited and anxious to start writing. I knew what kind of cello sound I would get from him--and what kind of cello sound I must give him. After I started writing, the work was like a journey I never wanted to stop. I used to play cello as a boy, and it was almost like all these years I had taken a journey and was now returning to the love I had abandoned.