{"id":166,"date":"2011-05-09T04:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T04:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:10:02","slug":"birches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/birches\/","title":{"rendered":"Birches for viola and electronic sounds (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/graham_darken1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-471\" title=\"graham_darken\" src=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/graham_darken1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/graham_darken1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/graham_darken1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Birches<\/em><\/strong> was composed as a response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/173524\" target=\"_blank\">the poem of the same title by the great American poet, Robert Frost<\/a>. My intent was not to &#8220;set&#8221; the poem, but rather to explore its inner workings &#8212; to re-imagine its parentheticals, present in Frost&#8217;s vicarious vision of a boy, a scene of birches, and the truth of the matter versus the &#8216;truth&#8217; as revealed in the confession of an old man looking back.<\/p>\n<p>Birches is dedicated to my father and was composed for violist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grahamviola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Graham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to Birches:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/birches_master.mp3\">Birches for viola and electronic sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A score is also <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Birches-for_viola_and_electronic_sounds.pdf\">available here,<\/a>\u00a0scanned from the original hand manuscript. \u00a0It is licensed under a &#8220;Creative Commons&#8221; license, see below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span>Birches for viola and electronic sounds<\/span> by <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Kevin Ernste<\/a> is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birches was composed as a response to the poem of the same title by the great American poet, Robert Frost. 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