Cadenzas & Variations III

Cadenzas & Variations III

Richard Wernick

Composed for cellist Barbara Haffner, CADENZAS AND VARIATIONS III is based on the opening of the composer�s Kaddish Requiem composed in the fall of 1971. When Wernick decided to revise portions of the requiem�s first movement, he became intrigued with where the opening cadenza might lead in a totally different context, leading him to use it as the �theme� for the 1973 work. Much of the work was written in the exotic city of Dar es Salaam in a studio overlooking a luxuriant tropical garden of bouganvillia, hibiscus, wild orchids, and flamboyants. None of this is evident in the music, not even the �waltzing� dove which was wonderfully entertaining except during working hours, when he nearly drove the composer mad.

Publisher: Theodore Presser Company
Instrumentation: Cello
Pages: 4
UPC: 680160005109
Item No: 114-40202

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