Be There — PDF score & parts
Score and Parts — PDF files — to “Be There” (violin & piano)
On Sunday afternoon at Town Hall, members of the Knights performed works by Judd Greenstein, Toru Takemitsu and Ravel without taking a break to highlight the three pieces’ similarities. When the lights dimmed after the violinist Colin Jacobsen played Mr. Greenstein’s lyrical, lilting “Be There” (2008) with the pianist Lise de la Salle, he barely paused before walking across the stage to perform Takemitsu’s “Rocking Mirror Daybreak” (1983) with the violinist Guillaume Pirard.
In Mr. Greenstein’s work, a gentle violin melody unfolds over a rippling piano accompaniment before evolving into more fragmented, insistent patterns. It was a fitting prelude to the fractured, sometimes dissonant exchanges between the two instruments in the Takemitsu piece. Inspired by the poetry of Thomas Fitzsimmons and Makoto Ooka, “Rocking Mirror Daybreak” has echoes of Ravel, as do the enigmatic opening mood and textures of “Be There.” - Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times
