Ezra Sims - Two for One

Two for One, for violin & viola (1980) Janet Packer, violin Anne Black, viola The etiology of Two for One is as follows. Sims wrote something called Ruminations for a Dutch virtuoso on the bass clarinet, but it proved unworkable. “To get some more mileage out of it,“ he says, “I converted it into a piece for violin and viola, distributing the parts of the single line, sometimes in heterorhythmic canon, between the two instruments.“ The piece was first performed at the Somerville (Massachusetts) Public L