This is a recording of the revised version. It was premiered by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), conducted by Gil Rose with Chien-Kwan Lin as the soloist, in Jordan Hall, Boston on March 28, 2014.

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Violations
for two sopranos, alto/contra alto, two vibraphones, two pianos, and electronics (2012)

Duration:	23'
Premiere:	March 28, 2013; Yale University School of Music; Kirsten Sollen, Lindsay Kesselman, Eric Brenner, voice • Paul Kerekes and Daniel Schlosberg, piano • Mike Compitello, percussion
Commissioned collectively through Kickstarter
Publisher:	Schott Music

Composer Note

The idea for this piece came to me after my computer was stolen. Stored on my hard drive was years worth of compositional work, which I am embarrassed to admit I had backed up only sporadically and rather incompletely. I was devastated by this loss. I felt very deep anger: rage.

Negativity and anger are powerful and cyclic forces. When we feel violated, we feel the need to make others suffer in some way, as we have suffered. Violations is my way of looking closely at human suffering, and in my own way, to exorcise the anger and blame I felt after my experience of losing so much of my creative work.

- Hannah Lash

Hannah Lash - Violations (excerpt)

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