“Evergreen” by Robert Honstein, Performed by arx duo

“Evergreen” 00:00 I- Fading Light 05:19 II- Sleeping Land 09:33 III- Shortest Day 16:32 IV- Longest Night 22:24 V- Rosy-fingered Dawn “Evergreen” by Robert Honstein was commissioned by arx duo and a consortium of percussionists: DoubleBeats, CHannel2 Percussion Duo, The Up:Strike Project - Directed by Matthew Lau and Karen Yu, Taylor Davis, Russell Fisher, Jose-Antonio Caballero, Johnathon Westcott, Darrien Spicak, Orion Wysocki, Eric Whitmer, If When. It was premiered March 6, 2021 by arx duo in collaboration with the Sustain Music Project, Seattle, WA. AUDIO RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE ON ORIGIN RECORDS: “And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. “ -Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day ABOUT THE PIECE: Evergreen is a thirty minute, five movement work for Marimba, Vibraphone and Glocken