CHOCOLATES
for viola* and piano
*also arranged for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, alto sax, violin, and 'cello
(1999)

Commissioned by:
Michelle LaCourse
faculty, Boston University

Original Instrumentation:
    viola with piano accompaniment

Duration:
    three movements, ca. 16:30

Comments and Reviews

... a wonderful and significant addition to our repertoire... challenging as well as truly FUN to play... very successful with audiences in both viola/piano and viola/orchestra scoring... the closet torch-song singer in many of us would be hard-pressed to find a more satisfying outlet... can be programmed for a traditional recital or a concerto appearance...

Michelle LaCourse, commissioning violist
faculty, Boston University and University of Massachusetts

Program Notes

The three CHOCOLATES for Viola and Piano are torch songs in the tradition of the passionate, tuneful ballads of the American 40s and 50s.

The first two CHOCOLATES, “Godiva” and “Bittersweet,” offer soulful narratives that speak to devotion, poignancy, romance, uncertainty, longing.  The third Chocolate, “Triple Mocha Indulgence,” is slightly less soul-searching, more ebullient, and progressively becomes animated (a sugar high, perhaps?) right up to its raucous close.

Take a look at Waltz for Betz, too...

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For information on the concerto version of the Chocolates, click here.

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