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Samuel BurtAlisa Grundman, soprano, Leonid Iogansen, violinRobert Walliczek, trumpet, Jessica Finch, fluteRadio-LinesGeorge LamKyung Mi Lee, flute, Michael Berger, clarinetJeremy Baguyos, double bassZwaltDavid WitmerI.II.Shu-Ting Yao, violin, Ying-Chen Kao, pianoAndrew Soli, horn“Music so new, it was written last night.”Twelve is named for the number of hours allowed for composing the piece. The piece laysout five ideas in the opening section. These ideas are developed as a set of variations, onefor each of the four instruments, and the last for an ending.Kevin Clark (b. 1984) is a double-degree student at the Peabody Institute and the JohnsHopkins University, majoring in composition in the studio of Dr. Robert Sirota, andphilosophy at the Homewood campus. He is from New Jersey, where he won the HarmoniumChoral CompositionContest for his setting of a passage from Hamlet, entitled This Bird of Dawning Singeth.for was composed for the 2005 24hc (http://24hc.org). In this work, several sound massesare presented in various manners: sparse, quiet, rhythmic, etc. The sounds derive theiroriginal source from general surroundings in the city: trains, cement mixers, water fixtures...Cory (C. R. Kasprzyk) is very tired. For more information on other things, seewww.crkasprzyk.comThree Moods are three extremely short pieces that are a set of impressions I received from apassage by Leo Tolstoy:“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement anddanger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance ofenergy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”This quote constitutes the text for the end of the piece. I think there is a similarity betweenthe feelings expressed by the author and the overwhelming hubris it took to volunteer forsomething like 24hc.