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Margaret Swinchoski, flute : : Donald Mokrynski, clarinet : : Ron Levy, piano www.albanyrecords.com Marni Nixon, narrations TROY1339 albany records u.s. 915 broadway, albany, ny 12207 tel: 518.436.8814 fax: 518.436.0643 albany records u.k. box 137, kendal, cumbria la8 0xd Joseph Turrin | Statements, Melinda Wagner | Thumbnail Moon tel: 01539 824008 © 2012 Albany Records made in the usa DDD Ryan Francis | Trio, Gwyneth Walker | Full Circle, Sunbin Kim | Whirlwind warning: copyright subsists in all recordings issued under this label. Matthew Halper | Trio, Amanda Harberg | Birding in the Palisades The Palisades Virtuosi is pleased The New York Flute Club (all in ) and Ohio each summer to play principal flute with the Ron Levy, internationally acclaimed pianist, has to present the fourth volume in their The Stratford Summer Music Festival (Canada). Lancaster Festival . She has been honored been called “first-class” by the New York Times. He continuing series of works commissioned Volumes 1,2 and 3 of their New American Masters with an Outstanding Alumni Award from her alma regularly appears in major venues, both as a soloist, CD series have been released by Albany Records mater in Vermont. Her solo debut CD From The and in partnership with many of the world’s leading exclusively by PV and premiered on to critical acclaim and feature works by 18 of their Hudson Valley, released by Albany Records, garnered singers and instrumentalists. A graduate of Oberlin, their subscription series at the Unitarian commissioned composers. All of these albums have rave reviews from Fanfare magazine and American Mr. Levy has been pianist and harpsichordist of the Society of Ridgewood in Ridgewood, received rave reviews from such publications as Record Guide. Ms. Swinchoski can also be heard Oberlin Orchestra, the Westchester Symphony, and New Jersey. Founded in 2003, the organization Fanfare Magazine, American Record Guide and Living on the Newport Classics, CRI and High Point labels. the Albany Symphony, among others. Presently, he is has commissioned new works from many well Music Journal. They have also released a CD on High Ms. Swinchoski performs on a Powell flute with a Associate Artist with the All Seasons Chamber known composers including Seymour Barab, James Point Records—Palisades Virtuosi in Recital, which Drelinger headjoint. Players, and is the pianist of the Orpheus Men’s Chwalyk, Dan Cooper, Gary Eskow, Eric Ewazen, includes music of Ernest Bloch, Phillipe Gaubert, Chorus. For more than 20 years, Mr. Levy was Randall Faust, Ryan Francis, Carlos Franzetti, David Debussy, Scriabin, Saint-Saens and Franz Danzi. Donald Mokrynski, clarinetist, is a native to associated with the Manchester (Vermont) Music Gilbert, Aaron Grad, Matt Halper, Amanda Harberg, www.palisadesvirtuosi.org metropolitan New York and has played with many of Festival; while living in Vermont, he was Music Ting Ho, Dick Hyman, Sunbin Kim, John Lampkin, the area’s finest ensembles. Most recently Don was Director & Conductor of the Theatre in Richard Lane, Frank Ezra Levy, Robert Manno, Ben Margaret Swinchoski, flutist, began her musical principal clarinetist with the national tour of Phantom Weston, and impresario of the “Third Saturday” Model, Paul Moravec, Caroline Newman, Stephen studies at the age of in Vermont. A champion of of the Opera and with The Music of Andrew Lloyd chamber music series at the historic Equinox Hotel. Perillo, David Sampson, Brian Schober, Godfrey new music she has been involved in commissioning Webber starring Michael Crawford. Mr. Mokrynski Mr. Levy has taught at numerous colleges, and is Schroth, Paul Mack Somers, Allen Shawn, Joseph works since 1978. She graduated with degrees has also performed with the New Jersey Symphony, currently an instructor at Montclair State University Turrin, Melinda Wagner, Gwyneth Walker, Raymond and high honors both in Performing Arts and Music the New Haven Symphony, Solisti New York, and Wojcik and Donald Reid Womack. In addition, they Education from Johnson State College, Johnson, Orchestra New England, as well as the Jersey Lyric, have commissioned arrangements or transcriptions Vermont. She received her Master of Arts degree New Haven and Connecticut Grand Opera Companies. of existing works from Adrienne Albert, Matthew from Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens An avid chamber musician, Don has performed with Baier, Michael Colina, Lee Hoiby, Alex Shapiro as College. Ms. Swinchoski was a featured soloist at members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. well as having been gifted with works by Sergio the National Flute Association Convention in the Graduating with honors from the Eastman School of Garcia-Marruz, Ting Ho, Ron Levy, David Messer, World Premiere of Leo Kraft’s From The Hudson Music and completing a master’s degree from the Fred Messner, Paul Somers & Raymond Wojcik. In Valley, premiered Richard Lane’s Flute Concerto with Juilliard School, Don has also attended the music 2012 the ensemble will celebrate the premiere of the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra and has appeared festivals of Aspen, Waterloo and Heidelberg the 50th work (from the 50th state!) that they have as a concerto soloist with many other . and has recorded for Koch International, added to the repetoire for flute, clarinet & piano. They She was presented in her debut recital by Artists Soundstream, Elektra and High Point records. have appeared regularly at many important venues International at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. She Mr. Mokrynski performs on a Buffet R-13 clarinet. throughout the Northeast and Canada, including The has served as principal flutist with the Westchester National Flute Association, Lincoln Center Library, and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestras, and travels to and the Ridgewood Conservatory. A two-term Romeo & Juliet, Fraulien Schneider in , and Summit, Klavier, Cala, Albany, MSR Classics, and the musical material consists of short melodic and President of the Professional Music Teachers’ Guild recently Eunice Miller in Kander and Ebb’s 70, Girls, Crystal record labels. A recipient of commissions rhythmic motifs that develop into larger themes and of New Jersey, he is a contributing editor to BIM 70. Television appearances include Boomerang, The from the , the Lincoln Center sections. I have often thought that the true power Music Publications, Switzerland. Mr. Levy made his Mothers in-Law; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Chamber Music Society, , Canadian of using short motifs and fragments in musical debut at the Academy of the Arts and the University frequent American Variety shows such as the Merv Brass, Live from Lincoln Center and Evelyn Glennie, compositions is to give the music a sense of ever in Oahu, Hawaii. Recordings by Mr. Levy are Griffin, Jack Paar, Today Show, Tonight Show and, his works have been championed by noted musicians expanding possibilities and potential for organic available on the Albany, Centaur, Eroica, Koch The Best of Both Worlds (her one Special) on BBC and ensembles. His music is published by Theodore growth. There is also the beauty of economy in such International, MMF and High Point labels. On his and ITV. A frequent guest and side-kick for Presser, Boosey and Hawkes, Edition Peters, Edition a compositional approach as these small entities recordings, Mr. Levy performs on a Yamaha C7 piano. and , her one woman show Mostly Marni BIM, C. Alan Publications, Warner Brothers and Hal develop and grow into larger sections. For me, this Nixon (with Donovan Diez) began its national tour at Leonard. Mr. Turrin has received awards and grants is what musical form is all about; the inner workings Marni Nixon’s Feinstein’s Supper club in April 2011. She has been from the National Endowment on the Arts, National of a composition, how one note leads to the next on-going career includes seen in many “the-making-of” documentaries. Film Band Association Revelli Composition Award, note in an ever-expanding cascade of sound and performances with opera roles include Aunt Alice in I Think I Do; and Sister ASCAP, American Music Center, United Nations, rhythm. —Joseph Turrin companies, chamber Sophia in The Sound of Music. A much sought after New Jersey State Council On the Arts and Meet the ensembles and symphony judge of Metropolitan Opera Auditions and the Composer. In 2006 he received an honorary degree Melinda Wagner (b.1957) received graduate orchestras, as an oratorio National Association of Teachers and Singing, among from the Eastman School of Music and the University degrees in Music Composition from the University soloist and Grammy nominated recordings in both many others, Miss Nixon presents Master Classes of Rochester. Mr. Turrin studied composition at the of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. popular and classical categories (Boulez, Villa- in colleges and universities and teaches privately Eastman and the Manhattan School of Music and Wagner’s Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, Lobos, Ives, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Copland) with throughout the U.S. Miss Nixon is the singing voice is currently on the composition faculty at the Hartt commissioned by Paul Lustig Dunkel and the conductors Wallenstein, Previn, Mehta, Stravinksy, of , and School and Montclair State University. Westchester Philharmonic, was awarded the 1999 Stokowski and Bernstein, to name a few. Awards in the motion pictures and on the of The Pulitzer Prize in Music. The Chicago Symphony has include Four Emmys for Best Actress on her children’s King and I, An Affair to Remember, , Statements [2009] consists of five individual commissioned three major works and her music TV show called Boomerang and two Gold records and . movements. Each of the three inner movements has been performed by the National Symphony, for Songs for Mary Poppins and (voice of features one of the three instruments in the Toronto Symphony, Kansas City Symphony and Grandma Fa), two Classical Grammy Nominations and ensemble: Etude for solo piano, Inflections for the New York Philharmonic, among many other the coveted Peabody award, 2011, for “Outstanding clarinet and piano and Persistence of Vision for orchestras. Ms. Wagner’s chamber works have been Contributions to America Music.” Broadway credits the music flute and piano. The outer two movements, Prelude performed by the New York New Music Ensemble, includes Heidi Schiller in Sondheim’s , and and Dèja Vu combine the trio as a whole and are the Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, originating the roles of Sadie McKibben in Opal, and Joseph Turrin’s music has been commissioned related in musical material. Although each movement the Empyrean Ensemble, and many other leading Edna in Taking My Turn, and Aunt Kate in James and performed by the some of the world’s leading has its own personality there is a dramatic and organizations. She has received commissions from Joyce’s The Dead. In Regional and Off-Broadway orchestras, chamber ensembles and soloists and structural thread that runs throughout giving the the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the her roles have included Nurse in Shakespeare’s has been recorded on the RCA, Naxos, EMI, Teldec, piece continuity, balance and overall shape. Most of Barlow Foundation, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, musical response to the newly opened High Line park Oberlin College Conservatory, she resigned from several other poems in this section of the Teachings the Ernst and Young Emerging Composers Fund, the on the west side of Manhattan. Born in Portland, academic employment in 1982 in order to pursue a are of similar sentiments. Musical motion is slow- American Brass Quintet, and guitarist David Starobin. Oregon, Francis trained at the Juilliard School, where career as a full-time composer. She is the recipient paced, perhaps best demonstrated by the opening She is the recipient of numerous honors, including he received his masters and doctoral degrees in of the Year 2000 “Lifetime Achievement Award” chords in the piano where most pitches move only a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, composition. He holds a bachelors of composition from the Vermont Arts Council as well as the 2008 stepwise, and some are held through. These chords an award from the American Academy of Arts and from the University of Michigan. “Athenaeum Award for Achievement in the Arts return throughout the piece, providing a pond of “still Letters, and three ASCAP Young Composer Awards. and Humanities” from the St. Johnsbury (Vermont) water” beneath the winds. The flute and clarinet Melinda Wagner has taught at the University Trio [2009] for Palisades Virtuosi actually began Athenaeum. Walker’s catalog includes more than are the melodic voices representing the activity of of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Syracuse with Schubert in the back of my mind. I began with 200 commissioned works for orchestra, chamber nature— birds, stars. Just as Setting Forth serves as University, and Hunter College. Ms. Wagner has a bit of material that reminded me of Gretchen ensembles, chorus, and solo voice. The music of a starting point for the musical expedition, so does served as Composer-in-Residence at the Yellow Barn am Spinnrade, and just began to develop other Gwyneth Walker is published by E.C. Schirmer and a benediction of Let Tomorrow Come offer closing Music Festival, the Monadnock Music Festival, the material around it. I then began to think it would Lauren Keiser Music Publishing. Recordings of her sentiments. And these are sentiments of rejoicing as University of Texas (Austin) and at the Bravo! Vail be interesting to take a more broadly “Schubertian” music are found on the Albany, Cedille, Gothic, well as acceptance. For there is the acknowledgment Valley Music Festival. approach to the piece itself. What I mean when I say Centaur, Proteus Entertainment, Ivory Key, Leonarda, that the journey from dark to light is accomplished that is I decided to create melodic material that was Innova and Four-tay labels. not by ourselves alone. In the words of the Wendell Thumbnail Moon (2009) was composed for the generally rather expansive as opposed to motivically Berry poem, “Not by your will is the house carried Palisades Virtuosi. While it was tempting to write a compact, and let the piece unfold with that melodic Full Circle [2007] is a three movement work through the night.” Therefore, the musical celebration fast and furious piece for this versatile trio, I chose material a more or less a constant, with constantly for flute, clarinet and piano that celebrates life. takes the form of a lively mixed-meter dance. The instead to explore a more subtle, muted landscape. changing background material. At least, that is more Specifically, they have been inspired by the articulation is staccato (short) to represent specks of Beginning with a sad, plaintive melody and ending or less how I perceive Schubert’s development of “Humanist Teachings” (collection of poetry) in the light. Delight is taken in the rhythmic vitality of this with a languid repeated tone—a kind of “nodding his material in his late Sonatas, which I always Unitarian Hymnal. And with this in mind, poems may music. Morning has arrived! —Gwyneth Walker off”—the work is a sleepy lullaby in miniature. admired for their entirely unique take on the form, be read before the playing of each movement. Or, Composing it reminded me that, as a little girl, I quite distinguishing themselves from the more the music may be performed without break. Setting Sunbin Kim has composed more than 100 works once believed that the new crescent moon is God’s organic, logical building-block construction of Haydn Forth is a musical response to the Walt Whitman including pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles, thumbnail. —Melinda Wagner and Beethoven’s sonatas. Trio isn’t a sonata itself, poem, Song of the Open Road. Phrases rise, often percussion ensembles, piano and world music however, and tends more towards a sort of modified spanning an octave or more of “open” space. There instrumentation. He has been recognized seven American composer Ryan Anthony Francis (b.1981) rondo.—Ryan Francis is energy expressed as the tempo quickens, and times in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers has spent his career drawing upon aesthetically the harmonic center shifts upward. After several Competition and also won the National Guild diverse sources of inspiration from his music. Most Dr. Gwyneth Walker (b.1947) is a graduate of exuberant passages, the music softens to a quiet of Community Schools of the Arts/Hartt School recently, his work High Line for orchestra was Brown University and the Hartt School of Music. ending, as though listening to what path will appear Community Division’s Young Composers Award. premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in She holds B.A., M.M. and D.M.A. Degrees in Music next. The Grace of the World follows the Wendell His other honors include winning the North/ Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. High Line was Francis’s Composition. A former faculty member of the Berry poem, The Peace of Wild Things, although South Consonance Composers Competition, the Westchester Chamber Orchestra’s Nicolas Flagello with its stark, disjunct chords and unpredictability and is Artistic Director of Ars Vitalis: The New setting of the original flute and clarinet duet. Piano Competition and the Pike’s Peak Young of speed. Near the end, all three instruments are Jersey New Music Forum. He received the D.M.A. The Trio ends in still, whispered tones. Compsoers Competition, amonth many others. combined into one nebulous sonority. In Whirlwind degree in music composition from the University of —Matthew Halper Upon his arrival in the US in 1998, Sunbin began I used several extended techniques that show the Maryland; the M.S. degree in applied mathematics his studies in composition at the Mannes College timbral capacity of each instrument: for the winds, from New Jersey Institute of Technology; an M.A. A native of Philadelphia, the music of Amanda of Music and has attended the Juilliard School of breathy attacks, “air tones” and multiphonics; and for degree in composition and theory; and a B.S. degree Harberg has been performed frequently in Music’s Pre-College Sunbin twice attended Boston the piano, strums, pizzicatos, and percussive effects in electrical engineering. He has received several Lincoln Center, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, and in many University’s Tanglewood Institute’s Young Composers on the strings. Writing for the Palisades Virtuosi gave awards from ASCAP and is twice a recipient of a universities, recital halls, conferences and art Program and the ISAM Young Composers Summer me a unique, and in the end, very fulfilling challenge New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual museums throughout the country and abroad. She Institute in Michelstadt, Germany. Sunbin attends in composing music. —Sunbin Kim Artist Fellowship. has received commissions from the New York Youth Bard College Conservatory of Music studying Symphony, the New York State Council on the Arts, composition and physics. Sunbin has received Matthew Halper received a Whitaker Reading The Trio [2008] for flute, clarinet and piano was the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the American commissions for new works from the Palisades Prize from the American Composers Orchestra commissioned by the Palisades Virtuosi and Music Center, the Harmonium Choral Society, Virtuosi, Englewinds, the Da Capo Chamber Players, for his orchestral work Stalin’s Wake: Homage to premiered as part of their 5th anniversary season. the New York State Music Teachers Association, and Turn on the Music! Shostakovich. His String Quartet was awarded the The work starts with a solemn and wistful piano the Juilliard School’s ‘Piano Century’ Festival, the Walsum Prize and premiered by principal members solo followed by a flute and clarinet duet. These New Juilliard Ensemble, the Palisades Virtuosi, Whirlwind [2008] was written for the Palisades of the National Symphony Orchestra. His music opening ideas serve as the thematic material for the Freespace Dance, the New Jersey Arts Collective, Virtuosi. I named it “Whirlwind” after the fast has received performances in many leading venues entire, single-movement work. Sketched while I was the Azure Ensemble, the Montclair State University flourishes in the opening flute solo that had been the such as Lincoln Center’s , Weill in Venice, Italy during the summer of 2007, I was ‘Octubafest’, the Margaret Atwood Commissioning starting point of my piece, which was reminiscent to Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, inspired by the quietude and mystique that can be Project, pianist Kathleen Supove, and from frequent me of a whirlwind. I worked this beginning idea into the Moores Opera House in Houston, and live on found off the beaten path in this amazing, historic collaborator violist Brett Deubner, with whom she the “theme flavor” that I would base this piece on, Chicago Radio and Public Television. His music city—I remember Dorsoduro late at night, the Jewish also frequently performs. Harberg’s orchestral an agile but light, and at times ethereal “texture” of has been performed at conferences of the College Ghetto, and certain residential byways and canals. music has been played by the American Composers the sound. First the whirlwind is sharp and strong, Music Society, College Band Directors National After the opening exposition, a mysterious fugue sets Orchestra, the string players of the New Jersey in the flute; then subsides into calmness, with the Association, National Association of Composers off what becomes an ever-intensifying development Symphony, the Susquehanna Symphony, the clarinet and piano; and finally comes a gentler gust, USA, the Society of Composers, the National Flute of the original themes; the mood is increasingly String Orchestra of the Rockies, the Philharmonic with all instruments. For this piece, I tried to write for Association, and at various institutions including ecstatic and carnival-like, always a bit uncanny. After of Ecuador, and by the New Juilliard Ensemble. each instrument so that they fill a “niche”—starting the Juilliard School and the Massachusetts Institute some musical twists and turns and contrapuntal Harberg is the in-house composer at Common Good with the quick, bright flourishes of the flute, then the of Technology. Recordings of his work include the back-and-forthing, the lowest register of the piano Productions, for whom she has scored several PBS darker, pensive, and slower tones of the clarinet. The Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble on Albany begins what serves as the dramatic nadir of the documentaries. Her awards include a Fulbright/Hays, piano, rather than simply accompanying the others, Records (TROY821) and Sonata Fantasy (TROY976). piece. Slowly, very gradually, the opening ideas are a Meet the Composer Creative Connections grant, is an integral part of the overall texture of the music, Dr. Halper is professor of music at Kean University recapitulated, culminating in an impassioned trio Juilliard’s Peter Mennin Prize, Juilliard’s Morse Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony summer residency, are flourishing more than ever, and are becoming a Acknowledgments and regular ASCAP Plus awards. Her music has been problem in Japanese cities. The intelligent birds are Credits: John Ostendorf, producer recorded on Koch International, Centaur Records causing frequent short-circuits, blackouts and even David Kowalski, recording engineer and on Walking Frog Records. She has taught at disrupted train service from biting into power lines. Recorded at Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ, April - July 2011 Photo of trio: John V. Bentz [email protected] Juilliard’s MAP Program, at the Interlochen Center They will sometimes go aggressively after people Photo of Marni Nixon: Ron Rinaldi for the Arts, and the ASTA Chamber Music Institute, carrying bags of food and are constantly outsmarting as well as maintaining an active private teaching culling efforts. After one of the birds attacked the New American Masters, Volume 4 is funded in part by a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia studio. Harberg received her BM and MM from the mayor of Tokyo in 2001, the city responded by killing University and would not have been possible without the generous contributions of the donors at kickstarter. Juilliard School. 93,000 crows between 2001 and 2008. Japan’s crow com including: PATRON: Steven Perillo, BENEFACTORS: Julia Lanigan and Fred & Vye Messner, SPONSOR: Tim problem is reflected in the violent outer sections Blunk and SUPPORTERS: John Butler, Mathew Halper, Jeffrey James, Trudy Kane, Steven Lavitan, James Lisanti, Commissioned by the Palisades Virtuosi, Birding of the movement. I was struck by this piece of Laura & Scott Luxor, Jacqueline Mahler & Ken Ernst, Jon Martin, Ed Matthew, Bob & Ann McGrath, David & Mo in the Palisades is a three-movement piece for news, because I have been touched by the spiritual Meuse, Robert Paterson, Sally Eyman Price, John & Virginia Reade, Robert Silvera, Paul Mack Somers and Ellen Katz Willner flute, clarinet and piano. The first movement, Eagles’ belief of many Native American tribes, in which Flight, depicts an aural dance between two American Crows represent wisdom that transcends ordinary Bald Eagles perched high on treetops swaying in a dimensions such as space and time. They are seen as gusty breeze. When the wind picks up, the Eagles harbingers of change who sometimes pass important Special thanks also to our families without whose support we could not continue. take flight and we follow them as they play in the messages to humans. Many Native American believe Joseph Turrin: Statements for flute, clarinet and piano is published by Joseph Turrin Music. sky, soaring, diving, and gliding. The Kingfisher and that if a Crow talks to you, it is advisable to listen. [email protected] Premiered by Palisades Virtuosi, May 30, 2009. the Fish, the second movement, is a wry dramatic Today, I wonder if we are listening closely enough to miniature set around a small pond (the piano). A what the crows of Tokyo are telling us? The piccolo Melinda Wagner: Thumbnail Moon for flute, clarinet and is available direct from the composer. fish (the clarinet) is swimming peacefully, oblivious solo in the middle of the movement is a meditation [email protected] Premiered by Palisades Virtuosi, March 29, 2009. to the hungry Belted Kingfisher (the flute) hovering on the strange wisdom of the crow. Ryan Francis: Trio for flute clarinet and piano is available direct from the composer. above. The Kingfisher makes a ratcheting sound as —Amanda Harberg www.ryananthonyfrancis.com Premiered by Palisades Virtuosi, September 26, 2009. it flies, which the flute mirrors with its fluttertongue Gwyneth Walker: Full Circle for flute clarinet and piano is published by Lauren Kaiser Music. effect. Does the Kingfisher get its meal? Listen and www.laurenkeisermusic.com Premiered by Palisades Virtuosi, March 8, 2008. find out… The third and final movement, The Crows of Tokyo (PV Takes a Field Trip) is an exploration of Sunbin Kim: Whirlwind for flute, clarinet and piano is available direct from the composer. www.sunbinkim.wordpress.com Premiered by Palisades Virtuosi, November 15, 2008. nature out of balance. This piece was inspired by my reading about the Crows of Tokyo. Due to the large Matthew Halper: Trio for flute, clarinet and piano is published by Matthew Halper Music. amount of waste produced by Western-influenced www.matthewhalper.com Premiered by Palisades Virtuosi, June 7, 2008. Japan, the huge scavenging Crows of Tokyo (much Amanda Harberg: Birding in the Palisades is available direct from the composer. larger and more aggressive than the American Crow) http://www.myspace.com/amandaharberg Premiered by Palisades Virtuosi, September 27, 2008. Palisades Virtuosi New American Masters, Volume 4 troy1339

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