Americana
by Dan Visconti
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano, Accompanying Electronics
- Composed
- 2010
- Duration
- 32'
- Publisher
- Composer (self-published)
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About this piece
Americana is a 32-minute, five-movement suite (also called a sonata) for cello and piano that Dan Visconti wrote for cellist Joshua Roman, commissioned by Town Hall Seattle. Visconti began it after a year in Berlin had sharpened his sense of being American, and each movement grows from lyric fragments of an American song, from America the Beautiful and This Land Is Your Land to Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Yankee Doodle and The Star-Spangled Banner. The cello writing borrows effects from rock guitar and uses extended techniques, and the finale leads into an epilogue with prerecorded tape, which needs simple playback. Roman and pianist Helen Huang gave the premiere at Town Hall Seattle on 10 June 2010; Roman has also performed selected movements on their own.
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