Music for the Passing of Days
The collection includes movements for cello solo, cello+voice (singing cellist), and cello+piano.
Music for the Passing of Days is an ongoing collection of miniature meditations composed for cellist Karen Ouzounian. Each movement was composed primarily in a single day and the piece is quite consciously not “about” anything, each movement simply being written as a response to the feelings of individual days.
Movement 1, for cello and piano, was written on a wintery morning on January 5, 2023: