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Hymns
year
1991
duration
8½ minutes
instrumentation
Two pianos, French horn, violoncello
commission
Joan Stein
première
Joan Stein and Betty Rosenblum, pianos, Maxine Neuman, cello, Heidi Garson, French horn
recording
Available on demo CD
movements
- Aeolus, god of the winds
- Toward a distant shore
program notes
A hymn…originally meant a form of “woven” or “spun” speech. Although the etymology is not Greek but Asiatic, the word derives from a Greek word for weaving, hyphainein.
–Composer’s note to the score
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