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Composed in 2013 and first performed in 2014 by Karen Bentley Pollick and William Susman at Spectrum in New York.

Aria is adapted from a larger work-in-progress, an opera, called Fordlandia about the struggle for succession of power between Henry Ford and his son Edsel at the Ford Motor Company. The title comes from an aria sung in the opera by Evangeline, Henry’s secretary and mistress for several decades. Henry built her a home down the road from his that included a secret passageway to her room. In this five-part work for violin and piano, the first four sections imagine a dialogue and interaction about their complicated relationship. The fifth and final section of Aria reveals Evangeline’s expression of love and triumph.

Karen Bentley Pollick is one of America’s leading contemporary musicians, performing a wide range of solo repertoire and styles on violin, viola, piano, and Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. She currently serves as concertmaster of Valse Café Orchestra in Seattle, and Principal Second Violin and Festival Artist with the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra in Boulder.

Composer William Susman has created a distinctively expressive voice in contemporary classical music, with a catalog that spans orchestral, chamber, and vocal music, as well as numerous film scores. AllMusic calls him an exemplar of “the next developments in the sphere [of] minimalism,” and Gramophone has praised his music as “texturally shimmering and harmonically ravishing.” Susman’s training as a pianist in both jazz and classical traditions was influential in his evolution as a composer, and his music is notable for its integration of global influences.

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from A Quiet Madness, released January 20, 2021
Karen Bentley Pollick, violin & William Susman, piano

Recorded and mixed by Cookie Marenco and Patrick O’Connor at OTR Studios, Belmont, CA, February 24, 2014
Mastered by Alan Silverman at Arf! Mastering, New York City, October, 2020

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William Susman is a composer and pianist.

His music has earned praise from Gramophone as “texturally shimmering and harmonically ravishing,” from Fanfare, "crystalline . . . and gloriously lyrical,” and The New York Times, “vivid, turbulent, and rich-textured.” Textura describes Susman as “not averse to letting his affection for Afro-Cuban, jazz, and other forms seep into his creative output.” ... more

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