Mulholland Fantasies

Limor Toren- Immerman, violin Nicholaus Yee, viola Garik Terzian, cello Yevgeniy Milyavskiy, piano Mulholland Fantasies, op.32 I . Presto agitato II. Andante mestamente III. Scherzando IV. Andante espansivo V. Allegro Gaudioso This piano quartet was originally commissioned by Pacific Serenades and dedicated to Mark Carlson, composer and founder of Pacific Serenades. It’s a favorite of my works and I recently revised it significantly, cutting nearly 70 measures from the last movement, with extensive rewrites. The quartet is an interior journey inspired by Mulholland Drive, the street that literally divides the city of Los Angeles into poetic halves, one side pointing to the desert, the other to the sea. This piece itself is in two parts. The first 3 movements form a set where the last measures of one movement repeat as the beginning of the next movement. It begins energetically with triads like a car winding along the snaky turns of Mulholland Drive. A melancholy slow movement follows, and then a scherzando dance closes the first part. The second part begins with an angelic slow movement featuring the cello high up in the violin's register. A finale turns from the expressive night sky into daylight joy and exuberance with an infectious dotted-rhythm accompaniment and unabashed lyricism, inspired by my love for the chamber music of Schubert and Brahms.