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Dona, Dona is a song about the fate of a bird, a calf, and the driver who must deliver the bound calf to market while the bird flies freely in the sky. All the while the wind laughs in the corn, laughs the whole day through and half the night. Why wasn’t the calf born a bird, free to fly away, asks the driver? Why? Why?

Dona, Dona is dedicated to my dear friend Elly Toyoda, violinist, who gave the first performance (with Lisa Moore) of this final song in my “Bitter Suite.”

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Dona, Dona www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIfRCT0F48Q

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from And I Always Thought, released March 30, 2022
Martin Bresnick composer
Elly Toyoda violin
Lisa Moore piano

Recorded Nov 7 2021 at Firehouse 12 New Haven CT
Audio Engineer Greg DiCrosta
Audio Mixer/Editor Nick Lloyd

Video Mateusz Zechowski
Video Editor Elly Toyoda

Track art photo by Mateusz Zechowski

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Martin Bresnick New Haven, Connecticut

From the Bronx, New York City, Bresnick delights in reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable, bringing together repetitive gestures derived from minimalism with a harmonic palette that encompasses both highly chromatic sounds and more open, consonant harmonies and a raw power reminiscent of rock. At times his musical ideas spring from hardscrabble sources, often with a very real political import. ... more

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