"Each summer, Dancing in
the Streets commissions a series of site-specific works for Wave Hill,
a botanic garden in the Bronx, New York, and the setting for a stunning
vista which looks out over the Hudson River and across at the Palisades.
This composition was written for one such event, choreographed by Victoria
Marks.
Wave Hill
is a chaconne, a repeating sequence of four chords (I-vi-IV-V), over which
a set of variations is built. It begins as a very simple chorale, but builds,
Bolero-like, into a dense, passionate, 3-part canon, before returning,
quietly, to its roots. Along the way, there are references to folk song,
fiddle music (open 4ths and 5ths), and bagpipe ornamentation.
There are two recordings of Wave
Hill. One is this 2-accordion version, performed by Klucevsek and Finnish
accordionist Maria Kalaniemi on 'The Accordion Tribe' (Intuition,
Feb. '98 release). The other is a version for violin, cello, bass and accordion,
recorded by Guy Klucevsek and The Bantam Orchestra on 'Stolen Memories'
(Tzadik)."
