Three High Places for Solo Cello 大提琴(含鋼琴伴奏)

"戈登-賴特是我一生的摯友。三十年來，戈登和我分享了我們兩個最大的愛好：音樂和阿拉斯加。戈登是我的音樂合作者、隔壁鄰居、環保主義者和露營夥伴。這些小品是我們友誼中三個時刻和地點的音樂素描。和阿拉斯加一樣，戈登也是個大塊頭。他總是以自己的方式生活。他的死也如他所願。我們發現他躺在丘加奇山脈小屋的甲板上，蜷縮在他最喜歡的白樺樹旁，眺望特納根臂對岸的復活穀和希望小鎮。- 約翰-路德-亞當斯

作曲家: John Luther Adams
樂器: Cello; Piano Accompaniment
出版社: Chester Music

曲目:
Three High Places

原文簡介:
“Gordon Wright was the friend of a lifetime. For thirty years Gordon and I shared our two greatest passions: music and Alaska. Gordon was my musical collaborator, my next-door neighbor, my fellow environmentalist and my camping buddy. These miniatures are musical sketches of three moments and places in our friendship. Like Alaska, Gordon was larger than life. He always lived his own way. And he died just as he would have wanted. We found him lying on the deck of his cabin in the Chugach Mountains, curled up against his favorite birch tree, looking across the waters of Turnagain Arm toward the Resurrection Valley and the tiny settlement of Hope.” - John Luther Adams

This music contains no normal stopped tones. All the sounds are produced as natural harmonics or on open strings. There are no harmonics higher than the sixth. So these sounds should be clear and resonant. Even so, balancing the harmonics with the open strings requires careful attention.

The durations of the individual pieces are given at the end of each.

The total duration of the set is about ten minutes.