The Mirecourt Trio Commissions

Genesis II
(1983, revised 1984)

Janika Vandervelde

Prologue/Cycles 1-7a/Cadenza/ Cycles 7b-12/Prologue (Original LP recording, The Minnesota Composers Forum, 1984)

Genesis II was commissioned for the Mirecourt Trio by the Green Lake Festival of Music in Green Lake, Wisconsin, and it was premiered there in July, 1983. A revision of the piece was made a year later under a fellowship from the McKnight Foundation, and it is this version which was recorded in 1984.

Genesis II is one in a series of pieces exploring life cycles and cycles of change. It is based on
a crystalline, rotating body of pitches and rhythms in the piano—a “clockwork” over which are layered free-flowing melodies in the violin and cello. Thus as the work evolves, both circular and linear models of time are presented.

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