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Orchestration

for string quartet

Duration

8 minutes

Commissioned by/Premiere

Ponte Musmeci was premiered on March 19, 2017 at the Broad Stage in Los Angeles, California by the Calder Quartet.

Commissioned by the Calder Quartet.

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Note

Ponte Musmeci draws its title from a visit to the Ponte Sul Basento (Bridge over the Basento River), a bridge in the southern Italian city of Potenza.

Antonello musmeci biography of christopher

It is often called the Ponte Musmeci, named after its designer, the engineer Sergio Musmeci. While visiting Potenza, I was struck by this beautiful and hulking modernist mass—with its curving lines and concrete structure—that stood out from so much older, historical, and ornamented architecture in Italy.

The work traces my own experience of walking through the substructure of the bridge, which features wavelike shapes that undulate slowly downward and outward.

In my piece, the quartet very slowly expands from one of the highest notes on the violin to the lowest of the cello in