Duration: 40 minutes

Description: Originally written for string quartet in 2002, versions are also available for string orchestra and clarinet and string quartet. This version for chamber nonet was orchestrated in 2025 by Argentinian composer Marisol Gentile for her Ensamble Rosario, and it premiered with that ensemble on June 7, 2025 at the National University of Rosario in Argentina for the 48th Symposium on Contemporary Music. Movements: 1. Melody Over A Drone I (“O Mary, Don’t You Weep, Don’t You Mourn”); 2. Minimalist Tendencies (“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”); 3. Amazing Grace Notes: Homage to John Harbison (“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”); 4. Call and Response (“Go Down, Moses”); 5. Two Pentatonic Fragments (“Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Study War No More”); 6. Minor and Major (“This Ol’ Time Religion”); 7. Melody Over a Drone II (“Deep River”); 8. Canons and Chorus (“Glory to That Newborn King”); 9. Homage To Ravel (An Arrangement of “Balm in Gilead”); 10. Quodlibet-Fantasy (“Deep River,” “Goinʹ Home,” “O, Mary, Donʹt You Weep, Donʹt You Mourn,” and “Go Down Moses!”)

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