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umama womama Performs Han Lash's Music in Cold

Jul. 28, 2023

umama womama performs the West Coast premiere of Han Lash's Music in Cold on July 9-10 as part of Chamber Music Northwest's concert series. The work is part of a collection of three pieces by the three composer-performers of umama womama (Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Han Lash, and Valerie Coleman) titled, "Three Pieces for Flute, Viola & Harp" which was co-commissioned by Chamber Music Northwest. 

Lash notes:
"My piece, Music in Cold, explores an initial series of chords, triads related to one another in various ways, which unfold to become both the linear and the harmonic substance of the piece. I am interested in playing with the formal conventions inherent within a sonata structure, but very much in my own vein. There are two main themes in the first part of the piece, which then begin to be invaded by an arpeggiated figure inspired by a somewhat typical figuration usually associated with a stringed instrument (a kind of broken arpeggio as the bow traverses all four strings). This arpeggiated figure essentially alters all the other material, bringing the piece to a point of crisis before the energy burns itself out and, and nothing more is left except a somewhat broken return of the beginning idea."

Listen to Han Lash's How to Remember Seeds (2017):
Han Lash/How to Remember Seeds/Abeo String Quartet

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

Han Lash
Music in Cold (2022)
for flute, viola, and harp
7'

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