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Joel Eric Suben
A MEMORY OF YOUTH
for Violin, Cello, and Piano
I. Maestoso A—
llegro appassionato
II. Ballo di Corte
III. Pastorela
[8:15]
[9:00]
[9:10]
[8:15]
35 min. ca.
IV. Veloce-Feroce
TOTAL PERFQRMANCE TIME
Composer's Comment
My piano trio derives its title, but not its prevailing character, from the poem of the same title
by William Butler Yeats. While Yeats populates his poem with bittersweet reflection (almost
certainly on his tortuous love affair with Maud Gonne), my trio is meant to evoke a certain
innocence associated with youth. The harmonic and gestural language of A MEMORY OF
from functional tonality —
although frequently extend. ed and
YOUTH draws extensively
bathed in a cluomaticism associated vrith the early tvrentieth century, nonetheless intended
to recall an era not yet troubled by the compulsion to break free of tonal constraints.
First movement: Slow, majestic introduction leading to an undisguised sonata form
Second movement: A rondo form whose opening segment is a parody of an imaginary
Baroque nunuet, wluch returns in increasingly embellished form as a ritornello between each
of three succeeding (contrasting) courtly dances. The movement culminates in a prolonged
fugato on the subject of the first dance.
intentionally
Pastorela (Spanish for shepherdess)
Third movement:
suggests a gentle
romance vrhose tradition dates from medieval times. Begins in a tempo (Tranquillo) so slow
as to suggest suspended animation, alternating with a contrasting section (Elastico) heard
twice betvreen statements of the initial (very slovr) music.
Fourth movement: Fast and furious. A 5-part rondo form of dizzying speed.
A MEMORY OF YOUTH vras composed betvreen mid-2011 and Christmas Day 2012. The work is
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Markus Kupferblum
in Bewunderung
A. Memory
und Freundschaft
of Youth
Maestoso, non troppo presto
Joel Eric Suben
Violino
Violoncello
Pianoforte
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Copyright
2013 by
j.E. Suben.
All
rights reserved, including the right to public performance
for profit, by the composer and B.M. I.
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