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Trio About Rotation
For Violin, Accordion, and Piano
John McDonald
Op. 444 (2008-2009)
Third Floor Press
Medford, MA 02155
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John McDonald
Trio About Rotation, Op. 444 (2008-2009)
for violin, accordion, and piano
Commissioned by and composed specifically for AXIS (Elliot Cless, violin and Philip Acimovic, piano, co-directors; Michael
McLaughlin, accordion), Trio About Rotation is a piece that keeps starting over. In the fragile opening accordion solo, a phrase
struggles to complete itself, adding something with each ensuing version. This music comes back throughout the piece, first in a deep
chorus for the full trio, in a miniscule manifestation for accordion and violin, and finally as a distant fragment. This pervasive fi-agile
music has a contrast, however. A raucous, twisted dance section intercuts the fragility twice; a third interruption yields a list of re-
starts that can't seem to get going. They lead perilously to the previously-mentioned final fragment.
Throughout the trio, the instruments switch parts, effectively rotating through most of the possible passages they could
potentially play. I hope this creates a relatively complex circular feelingone in which we are moved but nevertheless remain
somehow stationary.
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