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Colorado Music Festival Premiere of Hannah Lash's Forestallings

Jul. 15, 2021

Peter Oundjian conducted the Colorado Music Festival premiere of Hannah Lash's Forestallings, a work co-commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation, and inspired by Beethoven's Second Symphony on July 22.

The composer notes: 

"My piece, Forestallings, takes just the opening gesture from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 as a point of departure. From that rather stark D – an anacrusis, my slow introduction unfolds in its own direction, quickly parting ways from Beethoven’s. I explore a constellation of harmonies which then lead to a faster music, which derives from the same material as what I used in my slow introduction, but now reimagined in a more urgent character. The slow music and the fast music form a sort of dialectic and a dialogue, and a sense of conflict is produced by the harmonic constellation whose hierarchies shift throughout the length of the piece. It ends uncertain of which tonal center leans upon which, asking a question rather than offering a resolution."


In addition, Min Kwon premiered Hannah Lash's Passage for solo piano on July 4 as part of her "America/Beautiful" project.

Listen to Hannah Lash's Tree Suite for harp (2017):

(Tree Suite/Hannah Lash/Julie Smith Phillips, harp)


To learn more about Hannah Lash, visit: schott-music.com.

Hannah Lash
Forestallings (2019)
2.2.2.2.-2.2.1.0-timp-str
12'
First movement commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Second movement commissioned by the Colorado Music Festival


Passage (2020)
for solo piano
3'

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