The UW School of Music YouTube channel​ has been sharing new videos almost every day for a month now, and they recently shared this video of UW percussionists performing Yiheng Yvonne Wu's Violent Tender last academic year. We're excited to be featured on the channel, and really glad that UW has uploaded so many recent performances on their channel (my parents are always bummed that concerts aren't live-streamed).
Violent Tender is a percussion quartet composed by Yiheng Yvonne Wu, composition & music theory professor and ensemble leader at Beloit College in Wisconsin. The composer shares these program notes: "VIOLENT TENDER when political violence parades around like adult civility, when aggression is normalized, how achingly empty is the sound of something pure? in a rare moment of beauty, innocence, joy, must its purity be obscured by the echoes of violence? OR can tenderness do violence to violence?" This performance of Violent Tender was the US Premiere of the work, performed by Ed Cunneen, Mason Lynass, David Norgaard, and Lynn Park, at Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theatre on November 30th, 2018. I really miss making music together in person and hope we can all rehearse and perform safely soon!
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