"Compassion" was a commissioned work, and was premiered by the UCalgary String Quartet, at the Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary on March 2, 2012. The videorecording was made by NUTV, the U of C's community television station.
"Compassion" is a musical representation of the notion that all conflicts, large and small, can be resolved peacefully when individuals approach one another from a position of compassionate understanding.
The concept of the piece is expressed musically, and also visually. The players begin apart, not listening to one another. The first violinist tries to impose order, but the order breaks down. The players begin to work together and listen to one another, first in a duet, then a trio, and finally in their traditional quartet formation. By the end of the piece they are throwing motives and ideas back and forth, proving that the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
21 июн 2014
