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“A Garden’s Time Piece …is a lovely conceit…. Ashworth
and Jessica Petrus play and sing expressively and knowingly throughout.”
–Laurence Vittes, GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
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“…lovely and evanescent – most of the songs take no longer
than a minute and leave you at once satisfied and waiting for more.”
— Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
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Commissioned by The Columbia Foundation
Available from Subito Music
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Performed by:
Jessica Petrus, soprano
Jacob Ashworth, violin
A Garden’s Time Piece was commissioned for artist/poet Leslie Laskey’s ninetieth birthday. Using two voices, soprano and violin, I really enjoyed a streamlined, elemental approach to setting his simple but evocative lines of life and love across time and space. The voice of the violin sings the underlying emotional complexity, the subtext, of the soprano’s deceptively simple lines.