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"For Morton Feldman" (1988) is a memorial to Gena’s teacher, who had died at only 61 of pancreatic cancer the previous year. The floating chords and slowly changing sonorities make a clear reference to Feldman’s musical style with one crucial exception: Feldman’s pitch language was almost always dissonantly chromatic, while Gena’s draws a more restful atmosphere in E-flat major, with (at first) only the pitches E-flat, F, G, B-flat, C, and D. Other pitches (first F-sharp, A, C-sharp) begin to appear, but the piece settles into middle register with only the main six pitches before
crescendoing into a sudden series of loud A-flat octaves. For Feldman aficionados, this loud interruption will be reminiscent of works in which Feldman broke the quiet stillness with a single loud noise, such as "For Frank O’Hara" — a work Gena conducted many times, and whose startling snare drum stroke he interprets as a reference to O’Hara’s untimely death in a car crash. From this point, the remainder of the piece draws more obliquely on the ending of Mahler’s "Das Lied von der Erde", in which the soprano sings the word “ewig” over and over on a sighing motive of E–D, as an orchestral motive rises E–G–A–B — in Gena’s piece transposed up a third to G–F and G–B-flat–C–D. Toward the end, the A-flat octaves reappear as well with Feldmanesque half-step dyads on top, Gena saying good-bye to a beloved teacher and one of the most amazing figures in recent music.

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from Peter Gena: Beethoven in Soho and Other Works, released October 6, 2023
Joseph Kubera, piano

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