The Collaborative Artist-Composed by Randall Faber this work was commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) to feature and promote collaborative music. It premiered at the 2016 MTNA National Conference in San Antonio TX on April 3 2016. A listener may presume the Three Characters to be portrayed by the three instruments of the trio. Instead the characters manifest in the unfolding sections of the work ultimately depicting three aspects of the human persona: serenity emotion and action. The simplicity of the opening develops with hint of a plaintive call. The middle section settles in rhythmically to present emotional reaching to the divine and the divine reaching down. Thefinal section a chromatic fugue weaves an unrelenting twelve-tone subject with the plaintive theme in a forward drive of raucous activity.
