for Jenny 2016
date completed
2016
duration
2'
instrumentation
solo violin and resonating snare drum
commission
Justus Schlichting for Jennifer Koh
part of
Shared Madness
premiere
June 2016 in Brooklyn, NY
Program Note by Samuel Adams
This short work, simply titled 'for Jenny,' is scored for violin and resonating snare drum. It was commissioned by Justus Schlichting for Koh as part of Shared Madness, Koh's ambitious re-imagining of Paganini's 24 Caprices. The premiere was given at National Sawdust as part of the 2016 New York Philharmonic Biennial.
- Samuel Adams
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press
"The concert was part of the New York Philharmonic’s NY Phil Biennial, which operates under the slogan “Let’s Play.” But given the opportunity to channel their inner virtuoso, many composers seemed to say, rather, “I don’t play that way.” David Lang’s “low resolution,” for instance, consisted of halting notes uttered in quadruple-piano whispers. Samuel Adams’s “for jenny” spaced out tiny gossamer notes over a delicate electronic track."
New York Times ↗
