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Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923), one of the “Sweat Shop Poets,” described the brutal conditions of the garment industry, where he himself had worked for years. In his poem “Mayn Rue Plats” (My Resting Place) Rosenfeld captured the dismal world of the modern industrial worker. If we seek the poet among of the pleasures of youth, flowers, and singing birds, we are told, “you will not find me there.” He asks his beloved, if she loves him with a true love, "to make sweet" his resting place.

More info: Mayn Rue Plats youtu.be/tJkBGa3dxQM

(Premiere performance by Anna McMichael violin, Lisa Moore piano)

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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 and Editor Nick Lloyd

Video (and track art photo) Mateusz Zechowski
Video editor Elly Toyoda

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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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