'What the Best of us is Capable of Creating'-- Works by Two Oberlin Composers Featured in Cleveland Composers Guild Concert on February 25 By Marci Janas '91
	back to main story		Undiluted Days Mumford's undiluted days, a work for piano trio originally commissioned by Sonia and Louis Rothschild for the Opus 3 Trio of Washington, D.C., will be performed by violinist (and concertmaster of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony) Laura Russell, cellist Linda Atherton, and pianist Susan Archibald. "After hearing the wonderful job Laura Russell did with the solo violin parts of my piano concerto," says Mumford, I knew I wanted her to play my trio. Mumford's a still radiance within dark air received its world premiere last fall in Cleveland. Mumford talks about the meaning of his work's title. "It characterizes, for me, a life resonant with wonderful possibilities, as bright as the first aspect of light that slowly reveals itself on a room's wall in the morning, eventually filling it with sun." Degas' painting of Madame Camus, found in the National Gallery of Art, inspired the third movement of Mumford's piece. Mumford dedicated the movement, titled "the red room," to the late Fred Calland, a long time music producer for National Public Radio who had been very supportive of Mumford's work through the years. "His vision and commitment to celebrating what the best of us as a species is capable of creating, will always be an inspiration," says Mumford.
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