• John Harbison
  • Suite for Solo Violin, on soggetti cavati (2019)

  • Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
  • Violin
  • 10 min

Programme Note

Movements
1. Aria (September 2015, for the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and Ariana Kim)
2. ED (November 2015, in memoriam Ed Cohen)
3. Serenade (April 2017, for the 25th anniversary of the Great Lakes Festival)
4. Cas-Cade (October 2019, in memoriam Craig Smith)
5. DEBut (November 2019, for Deborah Buck)

Composer note
This is a collection of brief pieces for solo violin, each marking an occasion, and each containing a cryptography in pitches, a soggetto cavato. The suite is ongoing: pieces may be added as occasions arise.

— John Harbison, November 2019