Red Cedar Chamber Music invited sixteen composers to participate in a group commissioning project to celebrate the 2004 centennial of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904). The resulting "Spillville Variations on a Theme by Dvořák" is a group commissioning project for Flute, Viola and Guitar, with 10 selected variations set for cello to replace the viola. The variations are based on a theme from Antonín Dvořák’s “American” Quartet in F, Op. 96, written in Spillville, Iowa, USA in 1893.

Instrumentation:

• Flute
• Viola (or Cello)
• Guitar

Movements:

• Theme: Spillville Variations on a Theme by Dvořák (Jan Boland)
• Variation 1: Reconfiguration (Jonathan Chenette)
• Variation 2: Chasing Antonín (Peter Hamlin)
• Variation 3: Dvořák and the Scarlet Tanager, that damn bird (Harvey Sollberger)
• Variation 4: Spillville Waltz (Lyle Dockendorff)
• Variation 5: Facing West (Luke Gullickson)
• Variation 6: Side Trip to Postville (Tracey Rush)
• Variation 7: Fugue (Peter Bloesch)
• Variation 8: Untitled (Michael Gilbertson)
• Variation 9: Spillville Blues (Pat Smith)
• Variation 10: Images (Dan Knight)
• Variation 11: Untitled (Donald J. Chamberlain)
• Variation 12: Solitude (Robert Lindsey Nassif)
• Variation 13: Joyful Steady Groove (Andrew Earle Simpson)
• Variation 14: American Sketch (Joshua Reznicow)
• Variation 15: Double Variation and Finale (Jerry M. Owen)