MP3 Dan Reiter & Vicki T. - Cello Miniatures

Quality sound tracks from the YOU TUBE 60 second cello miniatures written by Vicki Trimbach that take us through an amazing range of cello playing styles in "7 scenes from a day"

7 MP3 Songs in this album (8:11) !
Related styles: AVANT GARDE: Classical Avant-Garde, CLASSICAL: Minimalism



Details:
I originally wrote just one Cello Miniature in response to the Vox Novus 60x60 Project in New York. The project plays 60 different works that each last for 60 seconds or less. The one that I wrote for that project is called 16 Days to Make a Queen Bee. For the music theorists, I arranged it into 16 bars.
By coincidence, there was another project I read about at the same time that was for music of 100 notes or less. I combined the two...and my first miniature came in at 99 notes and 59 seconds. The cello has 29 notes and the piano has 70.
What I really like about how it came out is that when you're listening to it, you don't feel rushed. It is the most expansive and spacious sounding piece of them all...as though the bee has all the time in the world to become the queen bee [but doesn't!]. The strange title comes from a bee expert I heard talking on the radio about ...bees. It amazed me that the worker bees just pick one of themselves out...feed it royal jelly...et voila...16 days later...a queen bee. [Is that all we need to do to become something else?...just decide to be that something else?...]
So writing this one inspired me to create some other short cello pieces, and there grew to be 7 of them. Thinking about what sort of things to write about, I thought "well, what else do I come in contact with in a day?" [apart from experts I hear on my car radio]...and that's where the subtitle 7 Scenes From a Day comes in.
Each one is quirky in its own distinctive way...maybe particularly no 2 because we don't often see the pianist get up and stamp their foot.
I want to add that no 7 has an especially serious resonance with me...I was threatened with deportation a few years ago as I was reentering the USA: taken off to a small room where I sat with my partner for maybe 1/2 hour and had time to ponder losing my new life in the USA.
On a light note....thanks to Cheryl Magat at Peets for the lyrics to no 3 What Would You Like?

...Vicki T.