Meral Guneyman&Solen Dikener at Marshall University
On February 9 2012, Meral Guneyman (piano) and Solen Dikener (cello) gave the West Virginia Premiere of Justin Dello Joio's "Due per Due" at Marshall University. This is a two part piece that makes severe technical demands, but rewards the effort with a dramatic first movement that has an emotional heart of significant power, and a second movement of non-stop calisthenics and high excitement.
The first movement, Elegia;to an Old Musician (in memory of composer Norman Dello Joio, Justin's father), alternates seemingly random fragments, including a recurring nagging motif, with a long, passionatemelody that stops shy of opening up, like a speaker trying to say something coherent from underneath a mask of grief. The perpetual motion second movement has cello and piano trading continual cascade of scales, often interrupted by savage, sudden chords that shock the machine but fail to stop it from running. The work is dedicated to Carter Brey, the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic.
{Notes compiled from Greg Stepanich}
The first movement, Elegia;to an Old Musician (in memory of composer Norman Dello Joio, Justin's father), alternates seemingly random fragments, including a recurring nagging motif, with a long, passionatemelody that stops shy of opening up, like a speaker trying to say something coherent from underneath a mask of grief. The perpetual motion second movement has cello and piano trading continual cascade of scales, often interrupted by savage, sudden chords that shock the machine but fail to stop it from running. The work is dedicated to Carter Brey, the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic.
{Notes compiled from Greg Stepanich}