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12 Ibid.

23 George Lam, e-mail message to author, November 24, 2012.

13 Supported by The Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation. 14 Hochman notes that Lior was a composition writ ten out of grief, in memory of his friend Lior Zilbermintz, who perished in 2006 at the age of twenty in an accident. Hochman writes, “I think this might also be a gateway to the viola piece since they share a very similar motif, which for Lior , symbolizes her two-syllable name.” Gilad Hochman, e-mail message to author, August 13, 2012. 15 In an August 11, 2012, interview at the Felix Austria Cafe in Berlin, Germany, Hochman made a reference to a Lao Tzu quote, “A war is but a march of coffins and nothing more to it.” 16 In the August 11, 2012, interview, Gilad Hochman observed this juncture as “the path not taken.”

24 Ibid.

Gregory K. Williams is currently pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Viola Performance degree at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he studies with Karen Ritscher. Previous studies were at the Eastman School of Music and Boston University. Currently a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, City University of New York, Williams has become a nascent pedagogue and advocate for contemporary music.

17 Ibid.

18 Gilad Hochman, e-mail message to author, August 13, 2012.

19 Other company members include sopranos Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander and bari tone Robert Maril. Additional information regard ing Rhymes with Opera can be found at http://www.rhymeswithopera.org.

20 George Lam, e-mail message to author, November 24, 2012.

21 From a telephone interview between Gregory K. Williams and Sara Sitzer, November 14, 2012.

22 http://issuu.com/gtlam/docs/cary/3.

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