Sowash: Final movement of [ Father’s Day Suite] for violin, viola and cello.

...let me share the joyful final movement of my Father’s Day Suite for string trio.

In 2005, Ray Silvertrust, a Chicago-area cellist, commissioned me to write this trio.  He want an original piece he could play with his two, grown, string-playing children.  I named it Father’s Day Suite because Ray is a father … and to celebrate fatherhood in general, paternal bonds and the positive influence of fathers everywhere.

(I am a father myself -- the proud father of two fascinating thirty-somethings.)

The entire four-movement suite will be featured on a new CD coming out next month entitled Notes from the Midwest:  Seven Chamber Works by Two Cincinnati Composers.  (Three works by the undersigned, four by my friend Mark Lehman).  You are among the very first to hear this music.

To hear three fine Cincinnati musicians -- violinist Kris Frankenfeld, violist Belinda Burge and cellist Ellen Shertzer -- play the final movement from my Father’s Day Suite, click here:
http://www.sowash.com/recordings/mp3/fathers_suite_finale.mp3

To see a PDF of the score, click here:
http://www.sowash.com/recordings/mp3/fathers_suite_finale.pdf