Stitch-te Naku
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Orchestra
- Composed
- 1994
- Duration
- 18'
- Publisher
- Papagena Press (distributed by Theodore Presser)
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About this piece
Stitch-te Naku is a one-movement concerto for cello and orchestra, about 18 minutes long, written in 1994 for cellist Sharon Robinson, who premiered it with the Rohnert Park Chamber Orchestra under Nan Washburn on 12 October 1996. Its programme follows a Southwestern Pueblo creation story about the Spider Grandmother who weaves the world: creation, a descent into chaos (with the sound of guns), a song of mourning, and a closing dance of renewal. Hoover drew on Native American musical ideas, and the cello's first entry emerges from the orchestral landscape in sliding microtonal figures. Robinson later played it with the Long Beach Symphony and the Women's Philharmonic.
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