Stephanie Ann Boyd - EERO 

Stephanie Ann Boyd - EERO for B flat clarinet doubling bass clarinet and string trio
Recorded as a part of "Songs about Buildings and Moods" series for Access Contemporary Music. Full link: • Songs About Buildings ...
B flat clarinet/Bass clarinet: Danny Mui
Violin: Lydia Hong
Viola: Kaya Katarzyna Bryla - Weiss
Cello: Eugene Moye
"This work is dear to my heart; in high school I drove my first car, a 1983 Studebaker Avanti, back and forth to youth orchestra rehearsals on the University of Michigan's North Campus every Sunday. In writing this piece for the commemoration of the grand opening of the TWA Hotel and witnessing the midcentury designs of Eero Saarinen come back to life, I learned that Raymond Loewy, the designer who created my Avanti, had helped with much of the industrial design of the interior of the terminal. And in taking Saarinen's building's shape, tracing it on score paper, and working with that to create a cohesive structure for my own art that exists not on a canvas of public space but in the canvas of a public audience's temporal experience, I realized that this piece was meant to more than anything capture the experience of iconic TWA luxury and the adrenaline and exhilaration that comes from the moment of being in a plane as it takes off. As I neared the end of writing this piece, I learned of the place where Saarinen had passed away in 1961: in Ann Arbor, Michigan, overseeing his latest project, a building for a university music school that would some decades in the future hold those very same youth orchestra rehearsals that I attended."
Stephanie Ann Boyd