instrumentation: 3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - timp; 3 perc; pno-2 solo vln, 1 solo bass- str

In April, 2017 I first heard a live performance by the prodigiously gifted string trio Time for Three at Joe’s Pub in New York City. The group—Nick Kendall and Charles Yang, violinists and Ranaan Meyer, bassist— had reached out about the possibility of my writing them a concerto, and after hearing them play, sing, improvise and perform their own arrangements and compositions that evening I felt both elated—by ...