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title: Near, Under, Far
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slug: near-under-far
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instrumentation: For solo cello.
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shortInfo: Based on <em>Die blaue Eiche</em> by Luc Tuymans.
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date: 2021-03-01
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categories:
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- Solo
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_Near, Under, Far_ is a response to Luc Tuymans’ painting _Die blaue Eiche_ (“The Blue Oak”).
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I was struck by both the loneliness and angularity of the painting,
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and sought to capture these two ideas musically.
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As I was first sketching the piece, the region where I was living experienced extreme cold weather.
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Standing outside one afternoon during this cold snap, I asked myself: what is the opposite of _Die blaue Eiche_?
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I imagined a large blue oak, green with many leaves, somewhere in a field in California.
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I thought of viewing it from a close distance, from underneath its shade, and from far
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away on a distant hill. I then imagined these views of the long-frozen tree of _Die blaue Eiche_.
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In picturing these opposite scenes, I felt both unease and longing, which I subsequently set out
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to express musically (in addition to the painting’s loneliness and angularity).
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_Near, Under, Far_ was commissioned by _Musaics of the Bay_, San Francisco, California,
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and was composed for cellist Gabriel Cabezas.
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