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From the 2013 Tribeca New Music Festival, the cell, NYC.

Newport is dedicated to pianists and close friends Ivana Muncan and Milena Buca. Their pervasive smoking habit prompted me to write a reactionary piece, taking electronic samples from an old commercial for Newport cigarettes from the 1960s and setting it against a virtuosic piano part. The piece combines influences from both contemporary classical and popular styles. --Geoff Sheil