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Benjamin Britten - Suite for cello op.72 - Canto Primo. Sostenuto E Largamente

Holocene

Calgary

https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/large-house/

(photo by Susanna Majuri used here without permission)

When I called this piece “A Large House” it was a title I thought up in a hurry, for no specific reason, and it just seemed to fit. In retrospect, it fits because this piece more than any other made me feel like an architect. I was writing something that was a large space, open, but perhaps with huge pillars holding it up. The piece is stationary, it doesn’t move, it’s grounded in one place, and maybe it even resonates like something with a lofty ceiling. As for any other connection between this piece and a large house, you are welcome to make it as you like.

Large House (full) - Janacek Philharmonic, Peter Rundell cond., premiere (2009)

Cassandra Miller composer