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Portrait of a Horse From Chauvet Cave

from Must Love Cats by The Happy Maladies

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MICHAEL HWANG

Michael Hwang (b. 1988) loves Werner Herzog. Michael is also a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. His compositions have been performed by members of Chicago-based contemporary ensembles Dal Niente and the Spektral Quartet. Composition teachers while at the University of Chicago include Augusta Read Thomas, Anthony Cheung and Kotoka Suzuki.

"This is a single-movement through-composed work demanding a ceaseless escalation of instrumental color, speed and supportive contrapuntal lines. The opening gestures are heavy and unfurl slowly as if “from the mouth of a great lion” (T. George); it has also been described as music that is evocative of the “breath of the city at dawn seen from afar through eyes moistened by no-sleep and deep feeling” (E. Dagher). The music blooms into a beautifully wailing and delicate trio for violin, mandolin and guitar, leaving behind the deep earthiness of the double bass, but picking up speed. At the moment of greatest tension, the double bass makes its return, enveloping and imbuing the ensemble with renewed strength and igniting a transition into a carefully sculpted but maddeningly delirious journey through a landscape of tight contrapuntal turns and rapidly developing harmonic and rhythmic profiles." - MH

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from Must Love Cats, released March 21, 2015
Composed by Michael Hwang
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