Program Note
Anyone Lived for trio d’anches was written in 2017 and is based on E.E. Cummings’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” The poem captures an odd angle of two characters, anyone and noone, as they live out their lives, fall in love, and die...just to have “busy folk bur[y] them side by side,” while the pace of the poem and world never slows. Lines that reorder the seasons, the weather, and celestial bodies mark the passage of time, while the organisms that inhabit the Earth whirl and buzz by.
The rapidity of action and irregular rhythmic motives that come from a reading of the poem seemed to match the repertoire of a trio d’anches or wind trio. Of all of the potential wind chamber groups, the wind trio is fairly common, with much of its repertoire being produced in the early twentieth-century; Witold Lutoslawski, Hector Villa-Lobos, Adrian Cruft, and Paul Pierné all wrote popular works for this ensemble.
This piece is dedicated to Sipkje Pesnichak and Andrew Martin Smith of the ADVerb Trio, with whom I’ve been making music for over half of my life.
—Jamie Leigh Sampson
The rapidity of action and irregular rhythmic motives that come from a reading of the poem seemed to match the repertoire of a trio d’anches or wind trio. Of all of the potential wind chamber groups, the wind trio is fairly common, with much of its repertoire being produced in the early twentieth-century; Witold Lutoslawski, Hector Villa-Lobos, Adrian Cruft, and Paul Pierné all wrote popular works for this ensemble.
This piece is dedicated to Sipkje Pesnichak and Andrew Martin Smith of the ADVerb Trio, with whom I’ve been making music for over half of my life.
—Jamie Leigh Sampson
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This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.