Marc Mellits - Mara’s Lullaby
from PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) Vol. 3 by Corey Hamm, piano; Nicole Ge Li, erhu
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MARC MELLITS (b. 1966) (USA)
Mara’s Lullaby (2005)
“Mara’s Lullaby” was written in 2005, when my first daughter was just a few months old. It was originally the slow movement of my trio for Cello, Marimba, and Piano (Tight Sweater) and I found that it works well on it’s own as well. As a first time father, I was often trying to invent ways to put my daughter to sleep at night, usually involving music. Each night, I would hold her in my arms, and invent a new lullaby as I sang to her. On one particular night, while humming to her, she made faces, and squirmed in my arms. I tried a new melody and she gave me the same review. Eventually, I tried to remember the tune I sang the previous night, and she was happy. I realized then that she was asking me, in her way, to sing last night’s melody again. She made me sing that same melody every night for the next six weeks, and it is the melody we hear at the very end of Mara’s Lullaby. - Marc Mellits
Mara’s Lullaby (2005)
“Mara’s Lullaby” was written in 2005, when my first daughter was just a few months old. It was originally the slow movement of my trio for Cello, Marimba, and Piano (Tight Sweater) and I found that it works well on it’s own as well. As a first time father, I was often trying to invent ways to put my daughter to sleep at night, usually involving music. Each night, I would hold her in my arms, and invent a new lullaby as I sang to her. On one particular night, while humming to her, she made faces, and squirmed in my arms. I tried a new melody and she gave me the same review. Eventually, I tried to remember the tune I sang the previous night, and she was happy. I realized then that she was asking me, in her way, to sing last night’s melody again. She made me sing that same melody every night for the next six weeks, and it is the melody we hear at the very end of Mara’s Lullaby. - Marc Mellits
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from PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) Vol. 3,
released June 5, 2020
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