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

Ensemble for These Times (Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Abigail Monroe, cello, Margaret Halbig, piano and guests Mia Nardi-Huffman and Otis Harriel, violin, and Doug Machiz, cello)
Piano Trio (2007) by E4TT co-founder David Garner (b. 1954)

From the concert: "CelesTrios"
Performed: Friday, October 21, 2022, at Old First Concerts, SF 
Live-stream concert recording 

Program notes at https://E4TT.org/celestrios.pdf

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Piano Trio David Garner

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.  

Piano Trio David Garner

Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)

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