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Symphonic Images CD (2007)

Symphonic Images (2007) by Robert Rollin

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Music by David Hoenigsberg and Robert Rollin; conducted by Rollin and Hoenigsberg

Walter Mony, violin/viola
David Hoenigsberg
Robert Rollin
The Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra

This recording is part of the Dana Recording Project and is sponsored by the New Music Society with additional support from the Dana School of Music, The Youngstown State University College of Fine and Performing Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council. Proceeds benefit the New Music Society Guest Artist and Young Composers Scholarship Funds. All music licensed by ASCAP

Track Listing / Program Notes by Walter Mony and Robert Rollin

01: AFRICAN IMAGES FOR VIOLIN AND STRING ORCHESTRA — Robert Rollin

African Images is an original work which hints obliquely at an old Zulu melody without ever really quoting it. A stately original theme is followed by a lighter, more dance-like one with repetitive rhythmic patterns. Even greater contrasts occur when fragments of the quasi Zulu theme are presented simultaneously at several different speeds, a technique drawn from traditional African music. The entire process is repeated in a compressed and truncated form to increase tension. The final resolution occurs in the short, slower and more sonorous codetta.

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