A revised and expanded version of "Haves and Have Nots", performed at the Fall 2017 NYU Composer's Collective Concert. 

Featuring: Kyle Brenn (conductor), Yaz Lancaster (violin), David Mayers (bassoon), Alex Saraceno (piano), Danielle Chan (percussion)

Program Notes: Haves and Have Nots started its life as a dance piece written for a collaborative workshop between NYU and the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, based on a five-month study of Jewish text. It was originally premiered there on February 16, 2017, with choreography by Mimi Liu (a Master's student in the Tisch dance program). As the first concert work I wrote after coming to college, I believed it marked a milestone in my compositional development, so I chose to revise and expand it for this concert. Its original instrumentation was for violin, cello, piano and percussion, but difficulty finding musicians led me to use bassoon for the cello's part at the last minute. In its current form, the piece is a one-movement work with slow opening and closing material bookending a faster, more intense middle section primarily in 5/8 time. Triadic motives presented in the solo piano introduction make appearances throughout the remainder of the music, with harmonic content emphasizing chromatic mediant and half-step relationships. Despite the non-functional harmony, I made an effort to compose melodic lines that were expressive and lyrical.

Haves and Have Nots (revised version @ NYU Composer's Collective)

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