Ketty Nez: "trio in memory" second performance (4.7.25) by Ketty Nez published on 2025-04-23T23:45:30Z Robyn Julyan, violin, David Short, cello, Ketty Nez, piano Packard Hall, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO April 7, 2025 1. searching within 0:01 2. slipping away 15:17 Written the summer of 2023 in honor of the passing of my father, "trio in memory" explores musical roots of my parents: my father’s Slovenian and Croatian background, and my mother’s family from North Macedonia, which includes Romanian heritage. The first movement, "searching within" is based on motives of a Slovenian song first recorded in 1834 by Stanko Vraz, “Godec pred peklom” (“The fiddler standing in front of hell”) as well as allusions to the Croatian “klapa” style of a cappella singing, which uses close-spaced harmonies. Towards the end of this first movement, one hears motives of a Romanian mourning song, “My beloved youthful lad,” recorded and transcribed in the 1910’s by composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók, and featured throughout the following movement, "slipping away."
