La 2025 by Dan Senn	Bohéme for Piano and Violin duration 12'50"
La Bohéme was written in Prague in 2010, updated in 2025 at Gasworks Studio in Holešovice, CZ and is based on a symmetrical row from Salvatore Martirano's virtuosic piano work "Cocktail Music”. Sal was my principle composition teacher at the U of I in the 1970s, a great composer and jazz pianist married to virtuosic violinist Dorothy Martirano who's father, Dan Hayes, with whom I also studied composition at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The work is difficult to play, especially the piano part, and is dedicated to these wonderful musicians. Sal loved opera and Puccini thus the piece is wildly melodramatic. DS 022025	The full score can be viewed here. Listen to all sections here. Open  page in two windows to view and follow the score. Section 1, m1-66, 1"-1’43" Listen Section 2, m67-118, 1’43”-3’25 Listen Section 3, m119-215|3’28”-6’04 Listen Section 4, m216-289|6’10-8’22" Listen Section 5, m290-335|8’22-10’15” Listen Section 6, m337-351, 10’16”-12’50” Listen	Dan Senn (Prague-Watertown) is an intermedia artist working in music composition and production, kinetic sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. He has been a professor of music and art in the United States and Australia and travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation artist. He lives in Prague where he directs the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA, with his partner-collaborator, Caroline Senn. Dan's work moves freely between expressive extremes and languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. Dan is cofounder of Roulette Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media festivals in Prague. (read more). Photo of the composer was taken in Prague at the Echofluxx Festival by Caroline Senn.