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Olivia Davis - "Steeped", for violin - III. Cadenza

from This Is America - An Anthology 2020​-​2021 (ICR023) by Johnny Gandelsman

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Steeped is a personal reflection and response to the time that we live in, including but not limited to the pandemic that has flipped "normal" upside down, and a political and social climate in the United States that have done the same. The concept of steeping—whether it be tea or something else entirely—as a representation for these situations surrounding us acts as the catalyst for this piece's inspiration. Each movement's title draws from more traditional Italian musical terms, while playing on the meanings of each of those terms in a way that corresponds to "steeping" situations in my world.

The final movement is a cadenza, which not only plays with the traditional structural placement of a cadenza (now it is ending a piece), implying that we are not truly finished with any of the aforementioned situations—we are only so far going—but allows the performer to contextualize the Self in all that has been happening and beyond, as cadenzas truly are about the individual. The ending—regardless of which ending the performer chooses (as there are multiple endings I have given the performer to choose from), is meandering and somewhat lost (as I have sometimes felt during this last year); it is expressionist; it is exhausted, yet there is potential for and yearning for hope and betterment. - Olivia Davis

"Steeped" was generously and jointly commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (Philadelphia, PA) & Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (Boonville, CA)

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from This Is America - An Anthology 2020​-​2021 (ICR023), released July 1, 2022
Johnny Gandelsman, violin

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