Ezra Sims Two for One
Two for One, for violin viola (1980) Janet Packer, violin Anne Black, viola The etiology of Two for One is as follows. Sims wrote something called Ruminations for a Dutch virtuoso on the bass clarinet, but it proved unworkable. To get some more mileage out of it, he says, I converted it into a piece for violin and viola, distributing the parts of the single line, sometimes in heterorhythmic canon, between the two The piece was first performed at the Somerville (Massachusetts) Public L
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