CELLO VARIATIONS II

I wrote both my Cello Variations for Fred Sherry, and the second (1975) was a birthday present for the artist.  These are variations in the “modern” sense:  the piece is a continuously self-transforming  fabric in which the initial materials (reminiscences of celloish behavior from past music) are reprocessed into new entities.  The whole takes about eight minutes to play. 

-Charles Wuorinen, 1997