102nd & Amsterdam (2005)
for 'cello, viola, violin
By Douglas Boyce
American
American
“102nd & Amsterdam is dedicated to my father, Raymond Boyce; this was the first of many New York addresses for him. My father’s stories of growing up in New York in the 40’s and 50’s cemented in my mind the idea of New York as The City, an idea strengthened by my own relocations and peregrinations. My father is a wonderful, if diffuse, storyteller, with many narrative elements being developed, abandoned, rediscovered and sometimes corrected; while writing this piece, I thought often of his kaleidoscopic rhetoric, not merely episodic, and yet open and unbounded.” – DB
Other works by Douglas Boyce:
- The General Schemed
- Paisaje con dos tumbas y un perro asirio
- Piano Quartet
- Etude II from A Book of Etudes
- Blue Lines
- A Book of Etudes
- Study for Etude
- Day of Electricity
- 102nd & Amsterdam
- Aristeia
- La Guerra de la Dríada
- Quintet l'homme armé
- Palimpsest: A Composition of Maps
- Ox, House, Camel, Door
- Reptile Brain
- Trio for Violin, cello and Piano
- The Essential Tension
- ...merely circulating
- A Book of Songs
“The future is what the present can bear.”
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