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with whom you can be who you are

by Tim Stevens Double Trio

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1.
a.o. 08:03
2.
m.k. 05:47
3.
s.b. 07:32
4.
m.b. 16:08
5.
l.s. 08:21
6.
m.i. 08:37
7.
t.h. 08:59

about

This composition is another consequence of the Professional Development Award I won in 2011, from the Australasian Performing Right Association. I’ll thank that organization and the judges who voted on the award, again, right up the front, because it encouraged and enabled me in a way that I shall treasure always. One of the things I said I wanted to do if I won the award was to write for instruments other than piano, bass and drums, and 'with whom you can be who you are' is the result of that.

Composed in 2014, the piece was the product of a considerable amount of research (as well as whatever ideas I had); my orchestration books were open all around me as I tried to figure out what was going on with these four-stringed instruments and their bows. Never having written for strings before it was what they call a steep learning curve. But I was writing for musicians I’d known for years and with whom I was very keen to perform.

The movements are named with the initials of dear friends of mine. These wonderful people are from all over the place and most of them have never met. Mary is in Brisbane, Andrew is in the USA, Mark and Tabitha are in Sydney, Meredith is in Frankfurt – but all of them are fine people whom I love dearly and who have given me some astonishingly good times. I have been outrageously lucky with the friends I’ve made. When Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘A friend may be reckoned the masterpiece of nature’, he was onto something.

I want affectionately to thank Anja Grant, who was the first to play the violin part, at the premiere in 2014. Ani, it was so wonderful to play with you (at long last) even once. Then I want to thank Zac Johnston, who next took that chair for performances at Bennetts Lane in 2016. That engagement told me the piece could live. Dave Beck and Ben Robertson played the rhythm section parts between 2014 and 2016, superbly, and I thank them sincerely also. This large and challenging work benefited from all the many efforts you all made.

Which brings me to the band you hear here. Names and Phoebs – you angels have made me so happy from the beginning of this enterprise. Writing what I did simply to play with you and Ani, and having you treat it as seriously as you did, was a privilege. Mads, coming later to the piece, put so much time and energy into meeting its demands; the work ethic and conviction you have demonstrated have been breathtaking. I thank you all, with love. Floydy and Marty, it’s been an enormous pleasure to work with you too and I offer my heartfelt thanks for your contributions. You were so astonishing in the rehearsals and the session and it was humbling to see what you came up with in this unusual context. The five of you are some of the very best eggs.

Then I want to thank Chris Lawson, whose presence at the sessions was (but I want to say is! – because there’ll be more, God willing) calming and assuring and whose ear is impeccable, and the Melbourne Recital Centre for offering the opportunity to present this music the first time. Cordial thanks to my most enthusiastic radio supporters: Jessica Nicholas, Mal Stanley, Andrew Ford and David Moyle. With untold affection I thank Tim Dunn and Cheryl Orsini at Rufus; this association is something I value more than I can say. I thank the friends who are named in these pieces, among all those who have maintained an interest in my creative work as it has gone along. Sincere thanks to Garry Warne, Emma Franz, Julia Fredersdorff, Jennifer Mills, Ben Opie, Kashi Trathen and John Fowler for supporting our Cultural Fund appeal. Thanks to my parents, and finally to my beloved team: Sally, Oliver, Frederick and Lucinda. You four set the standard, and above all else I love you. Mwah.

credits

released August 7, 2018

Madeleine Jevons (violin)
Phoebe Green (viola)
Naomi Wileman (cello)
Tony Floyd (drums)
Marty Holoubek (bass)
Tim Stevens (piano)

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Chris Lawson at ABC Studios Southbank

Executive producer Tim Dunn
Design by Cheryl Orsini
All compositions by Tim Stevens
Score and parts available at timstevens.com/contact

For Andrew, for Mary, for Sandra, for Meredith, for Leah, for Mark and for Tabitha, with love.
Wish you were here.

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