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Piano Portraits: Nightwatch II. Bluesy Cantabile

by Marjorie M. Rusche

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Piano Portraits: Nightwatch II. Bluesy Cantabile
Barbara Podgurski, piano
Marjorie M. Rusche, composer
New Music Composers' Forum, Musica Reginae Productions, The Church-in-the-Gardens, Forest Hills, New York, New York, 03/02/2013

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II. Bluesy Cantabile is the calm after the storm, the determination to go ahead with life mixed with nostalgia. It opens with a 6/8 melodic line constructed from a d minor blues-inflected scale. The melody shifts to the left hand with chords added in the right, then is developed in a more contrapuntal texture. The music then transforms into a marcato chordal texture using expanded tertian harmonies, with the mood intensifying through the use of syncopation and stretto. Mirroring the process of the first movement's ending, the second movement closes with a wistful and tranquilly subdued restatement of the opening cantabile theme.

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released March 2, 2013
In honor of the memory of my mother, Alice Maxine (Collins) Rusche

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MarjorieMRusche South Bend, Indiana

Marjorie M. Rusche is an internationally performed award winning classical composer who combines romantic, modern, vernacular and world music influences. Dr. Rusche composes music for opera, music theater, dance, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles & soloists. She teaches music composition, orchestration, music theory, and piano at Indiana University South Bend and the University of Notre Dame. ... more

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