Other Minds Festivals ➔ Other Minds Festival: OM 8, Concert 2: 03 “Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano” by Lou Harrison

Digital Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

Other Minds

Identifier

OMF.2002.03.08.03

Program Series

Other Minds Festival

Program Length

34 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 2002-03-08 | created

Description

My only piano trio was commissioned in 1989 by the Mirecourt Trio. The third movement of the work is a little suite of solos for the three musicians. They are again united in the finale. With the exception of the one chromatic movement which is dedicated to the memory of Virgil Thomson, all of the remaining movements are modal in character, and the entire work is melodic. This is the first work that I composed after triple-bypass heart surgery, and it was interrupted by a major earthquake and the death of my good friend and mentor Virgil Thomson; thus it has a complex history. The premiere performance took place with the Mirecourt Trio at the Menil Museum in Houston in 1990. —Lou Harrison

Genres

New music
Chamber music

Musical Selections

Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1990) (33:19) / Lou Harrison

Performers

The Harmida Piano Trio:
Dawn Harms, violin
Emil Miland, cello
Laura Dahl, piano

Subjects

New music
Chamber music
Piano trios

Related place

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Other Minds Festival
The Harmida Piano Trio
Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003
Harms, Dawn
Miland, Emil
Dahl, Laura