Voices of Change, Dallas’s modern music ensemble, offered another enterprising and appealing program Sunday afternoon at Southern Methodist University’s...
The music’s general effect is of updated impressionism. The vocal writing seems natural, mostly flowing except in the nimble “Transitions” and frantic “Frenzy of Reason.” Victor Diaz Hurtado was the sympathetic pianist.
Two winners of Voices’ 2022 Young Composers Competition were represented by nicely crafted one-movement string quartets composed just last year., inspired by anime openings, Ben Spivey imagines the violins as melodists, the viola as an electric guitar, the cello as percussion, progressing to a dancelike ending. Mary Brook Hartmann’sshares melodic and chattering rhythmic impulses back and forth among the instruments, on the way to an agitated end.
Violinist Maria Schleuning, trumpeter John Holt and pianist Steven Harlos play the Trio in E-flat by Eric Ewazen, in a Voices of Change concert at Southern Methodist University's Caruth Auditorium on April 23, 2023. From Eric Ewazen, best known as a composer for winds and brass, came a 1992 Trio in E-flat for the unusual combination of trumpet, violin and piano. A capable practitioner of what might be called populist modernism, Ewazen mostly favors the trumpet’s lower-lying lyric possibilities over more blatant effects, but the finale celebrates in Mexican-flavored rhythms. Trumpeter John Holt and pianist Steven Harlos joined Schleuning in a deft and engaging performance.
The Skalkottas was the earliest of the pieces, but also the prickliest in rhythms and tartest in dissonance. The three movements progress from agitation to dark ruminations to an unsettled finale that allows suggestions of melody to surface here and there. Schleuning and Elsevier dispatched it with impressive virtuosity.
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