Hope, Persistent was the winner of the 2021 Austin Classical Guitar Composition Competition. We are hosting this wonderful piece on gc.com in cooperation with the composer Jamie Kirby. Below are the programs notes from the composer.
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Hope, Persistent is based on a simple melody written while I was on family vacation in 2012. My intent for this piece is to invite an experience of hope that both encourages and uplifts. The best kind of hope I can imagine is the kind that does not back down, give in or give up on me--but rather seeks me out every day of my life. I wish to be this kind of hope to others. Compositionally, this is a compact theme formed from diatonic involution of the initial three note melodic fragment (m15). A Relentless Hope follows a simple song form, with a short development section toward the end and is composed from a pluralistic perspective (incorporating minimal, tonal, serial and popular techniques).