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Aaron Alter

For Fred for Violin and Piano at the USF New Music Festival Play

Sini Virtanen	Violin
Eunmi Ko	Piano

Recorded on 04/07/2018, uploaded on 09/30/2018

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Here is a video of the performance of For Fred for violin and piano, performed by Sini Virtanen, violin and Eunmi Ko, piano, on April 7, 2018 at the USF New Music Festival 2018 at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

For Fred was written in memory of the legendary Chicago-based saxophonist Fred Anderson, in whose band I played piano while in high school. When he passed away in 2010, I wanted to write a piece in his memory and selected violin and piano to capture the solemnity and emotions that I wanted to express. After an elegiac beginning, the work shifts to a slightly more upbeat section, that recalls the music that Fred played at his club, The Velvet Lounge, where the bass player would play a bass line and Fred would improvise on that line. We return to the Elegy and to the memorial tone of the beginning as For Fred ends quietly.