YALE STUDENT COMPOSERS PROJECT                                                OHVII 9a

Hannah Lash

with Libby Van Cleve

New Haven, CT

November 16, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

early memories of listening to Vivaldi — musical (though not professional) parents — early exposure to music as a listener led to composing — Suzuki violin lessons — tactile experience of music from performer’s perspective — studying violin, piano and harp — does not compose at piano — Things Lost — feelings of loss and vulnerability after laptop was stolen — underlying harmonic progression as a piece’s DNA — starting composing with a harmonic underpinning — writing harmonically-driven music — interest in “gravitational forces around chords” — harmonic mobility — New York Times profile — Steve Smith — “post-Romantic expressiveness and avant-garde techniques” — melancholy in music — expressionist opera — juxtaposition of timbres in Things Lost — metric modulation — attending Harvard — studying with Martin Bresnick while he was a visiting professor at Harvard — Bresnick as teacher — currently working on a piece for orchestra — orchestra is still a “young instrument” — Heinrich Schütz Musikalische Exequien — commission for choir and organ — requiem for extinct birds — highly personal, contrapuntal — monogamy with a piece — writes quickly — studying and playing piano pieces for inspiration — Beethoven piano sonatas — Chopin Ballades — Ives songs — playing is integral to analysis.