Dear friends,
now that our own, illustrious Alison Stephens has already given the premiere of my Suite for Ali at the Dartington Festival, I am deligthed to make the score available to all, as a free download, courtesy of the ever-generous Jim Garber, my good friend and faithful "un-publisher"
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I wrote this piece at Ali's request in the summer of 2008, for her to perform on her glorious Pecoraro octave-mandola (hence the 8va under the treble clef). Needless to say, it can be performed just as effectively on the "regular" mandolin, or (read as it looks, i.e. sounding a 5th lower) on the CGDA mandola, or (for the truly intrepid) on the mandocello, sounding an octave + 5th lower than on the mandolin-- or even, for "period effect", as this is a profoundly neoclassical piece, on some earlier sort of mandolino.
Heeding the exigencies of Ali's career, with limited air-time allotted to her various appearances, the Suite is "modular"-- as they all are, of course. In other words, please feel free to play any movement(s) you wish, one or more, freely at will. That said, I have designed this piece so that it flows as a congruous, unified whole from top to bottom.
I thank Ali for giving the impetus for this, my most ambitious solo mandolin work to date, and entrust my baby to the loving hands of the world-wide mandolin community. Enjoy!
Cheers,
Victor
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