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the 20th century pulls out of the station and disappears into the mist
Date Completed:December 31, 2000
Duration:about 2 minutes
Instrumentation:violin and piano
First Performance:RZ, violin, Robert Frankenberry, piano October 23, 2001 in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh
Comments:for Rob Frankenberry
Program Notes:the 20th century pulls out of the station and disappears into the mist is my nostalgic farewell to what must have been the most beautiful yet terrifying century yet... i wrote it on the last day of the 20th century as a modest way of "closing the book" on the past. but only a few years later one senses that the book can never stay closed.
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