Composed by Tom Nazziola
Performed by:
Wade Culbreath - Marimba
Tom Nazzioa - Djembe
Mastered by William Weisbach
Engineered by Wade Culbreath and Tom Nazziola

Created by Grammy®-nominated composer Tom Nazziola, “Immovable Do” (pronounced "dough") features a soaring, relentless marimba pattern (almost etude-like), which is joined by an equally aggressive and supportive djembe part - both exploring different accents and phrases governed by elements of African and Indian music. The “tongue-in-cheek” title refers to the anchoring of harmony by a recurring low “C” or “Do” (as used in solfege). The stable repetition of C eventually makes its way to C# (still considered “Do” in the solfege system) allowing for a shift in harmonic perspective thanks to a play on words and pitch license (if you will).

Immovable Do

Khazn's recitative (2003): Eli D'vorim By Gabriela Lena Frank (b.1972)

Performed by Ensemble for These Times (İlliana Blumberg, violin)
Program notes: https://E4TT.org/mosaic.pdf

E4TT starts 2023 with Calliope East Bay Music & Arts, performing works by 20th and 21st-century women and non-binary composers. With guest violinist Ilana Blumberg & world premieres by composers Dawn Norfleet and Mary Bianco.

Saturday, Jan. 29, 2023, at 4:00pm
Calliope East Bay Music & Arts, Albany

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Khazn's Recitative: Eli D'vorim By Gabriela Lena Frank

E4TT's third recording,"Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan" will be released as a digital EP on June 30, 2020. The recording consists of three new commissions that E4TT premiered in 2018, along with a fourth relevant work: “Die eichne Tür” (The Oaken Door),by E4TT composer and co-founder David Garner to poems by Paul Celan, including "Espenbaum” (Aspen tree), the poet's heartrending reflection on his survival and his mother’s death; "Nachtlang" (Nightlong) by Jared Redmond (b. 1986), setting Celan’s “Notturno” (Night) and “Einmal” (“Once”); "A Song on the End of the World" by Stephen Eddins (b. 1954), setting a poem by Celan’s Nobel Prize-winning contemporary, Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) and including a reading of the poem by the translator and poet's son Anthony Milosz; “4 ½” for solo piano, by world-renowned composer Libby Larsen (b. 1950). A suite for solo piano, “4 ½” consists of five interrelated movements, the final one of which, subtitled “In Memoriam,” is “an elegy for departed, beloved ones.”

CD Booklet available at www.E4TT.org/omnbooklet.pdf

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Soprano Nanette McGuinness Pianist Dale Tsang. Composer David Garner. Cellist Adaiha MacAdam-Somer or Anne Lerner-Wright.  

Khazn's Recitative: Eli D'vorim By Gabriela Lena Frank

Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)

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