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NOTES BY THE COMPOSER: SONGBOOK FOR ANNAMARIA was composed before, during and immediately after the adoption of our daughter, Annamaria LaSalle Maggio. Each movement is based on an old popular tune... ROBERT MAGGIO - STRING QUARTETS
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• Manufacturer: CD • Manufacturer Part Number: CDBY 135153 • SKU: 7989770 • UPC: 884501513609 • Shipping: $1.12 • Description: NOTES BY THE COMPOSER: SONGBOOK FOR ANNAMARIA was composed before, during and immediately after the adoption of our daughter, Annamaria LaSalle Maggio. Each movement is based on an old popular tune that provides further insight into its meaning (e.g., the hard-driving work ethic of the railroad song, on which "...all the live long day" is based, suggests the round-the-clock duties of the parent). These songs are personal favorites of mine: some of them my parents sang to me when I was a child, and some of them I sang to Annamaria. The first movement, "we're bound away..." tracks the excited beginnings of our journey into parenthood. The second movement, "when you wake..." is both a tender lullaby for Annamaria, and a gentle farewell to my grandmother, Marie Basili who slowly vanished from Alzheimer's. "jimmy crack corn..." is a playful, intense scherzo; it was a favorite of my dad and his two brothers. "...all the live long day" is a passacaglia, whose repetitive rhythmic motion was inspired by the never-ending responsibilities and the boundless love I found in fatherhood. RAIN AND ASH. In the summer of 2007, after 17 years of sharing our lives together, my partner and I held a civil union ceremony in a quiet courtyard near our home. We exchanged rings and vows in front of our seven-year-old daughter, our parents and siblings, aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces, cousins, and friends. It was the best day of my life... and it rained like I had never seen it rain before. Someone told me that evening that the rain was an omen of good luck. If so, it was short-lived; five days later, my father died suddenly of a heart attack. It was a profound loss for me. "Rain" opens with a dance-like arrangement of an old Neapolitan lullaby. The festive dance music returns three times, alternating with more lyrical sections; with each return, the festivities grow more and more jubilant. "Ash" begins with the violin sweetly recalling the Neapolitan lullaby, which is abruptly silenced by violent repeated chords. These "brutal" chords interrupt the music's flow throughout the movement, appearing increasingly further apart; in between these interruptions the lullaby returns in various states (plaintive, distant, sweet, mysterious, wailing), yet never fully intact, permanently altered. It hovers in memory, always just out of reach. About halfway through the second movement, a new lullaby surfaces, "Skye Boat Song." A tune that I've always found hauntingly beautiful, the boat song becomes a metaphor for the journey of grieving, and the acceptance of loss. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ABOUT COMPOSER ROBERT MAGGIO The music of Robert Maggio has been called 'lyrical, passionate, melodic, and rhythmically charged' (American Record Guide). Hailed as a composer of music that is "smart, vital, and inventive" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Robert Maggio has created a substantial body of works in nearly every genre, each creating a unique connection between the composer's "wondrously... |
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