| Composer: | Gene Pritsker |
| Publisher: | Sound Liberation |
| Duration: | 00:00:00 |
| Instrumentation: | solo cello and cello ensemble |
| Opus: | 401 |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Work Type: | Chamber Music with Cello |
‘Never Found Again’ takes its title from a quote by Benjamin Franklin
“Lost time is never found again”. The piece is for solo cello and drone. The drone part can be played by any instrument. In the premiere of this piece a cello orchestra played the drone part. The Di.J. version has the drones played by a Di.J. (digital jockey) using a computer. The composition is a 12 tone piece, there are 12 drones, putlining the row and the cello melody is based on this rows variations
composerbiography: GenePritsker
Composer/guitarist/rapper/DJ/producer Gene Pritsker has written over 700 compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. an ensemble which has released CDs on Col-legno, Composers Concordance, and Innova Records. He is also the co-director of Composers Concordance, a new music presenting organization with a 30-year history of producing concerts in NYC.
He co-founded the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble with Kristjan Jarvi and has been a composer in residence and guitarist since its creation in 1993. Gene's music has been performed worldwide at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers including the The Adelaide Symphony, MDR Symphony, The Athens Camerata, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn, Shanghai and Berlin Philharmonics, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, Orchester des Pfalztheaters, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Anhaltische Philharmonie, Ensemble Kontrast, as well as such soloists as Anne Akiko Meyers, Lara St. John, Sarah Chang, Kathleen Supové, Martin Kuuskmann and Simone Dinnerstein. He worked closely with jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wrote additional music and composed his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony’.