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 tone 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, I studied with at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse just out of High School. The work is difficult to play, especially the piano part, and dedicated to these extraordinary 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 interdiscipinary 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. He lives in Prague where he directs the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA, with his partner and collaborator, Caroline Senn. Dan's work moves freely between expressive extremes and languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. His current film and improvisational work is addressed here. Dan is cofounder of Roulette Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media festivals in Prague. (read more). The photo above was taken by Caroline Senn in Prague at the Echofluxx Festival.