PERSIST

In celebration of the courage, patience and resilience displayed by people in times of great difficulty, ETHEL, the GRAMMY®-winning, genre-defying string quartet, joins forces with Allison Loggins-Hull, composer, flutist, producer, and Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow to the Cleveland Orchestra. Together, they have elicited new commissions from four brilliant early-career composers: Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima, Xavier Muzik, Sam Wu, and 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Leilehua Lanzilotti. Loggins-Hull herself contributed her own masterwork to the project. Passionate, committed, hopeful and inspiring, each piece contributes to an experience which surpasses the sum of its parts. 

Taking its title from Loggins-Hull’s quintet, Persist marks the fifth iteration of HomeBaked, ETHEL’s commissioning program for early-career composers. The initiative, begun in 2010, has commissioned and debuted 20 works by 16 early-career artists. Loggins-Hull teamed with ETHEL to solicit, select, and collaborate with composers from historically underrepresented backgrounds. Supported by two NEA grants, the program was premiered in 2022 at Brooklyn Public Library, and tours in 2024/25.

Allison Loggins-Hull

1 Persist 11:14

Xavier Muzik

2 PillowTalk 13:27

Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima
3-6 The Reconciliation Suite
       1. The Unknowns 2:16
             2. Never Be the Same 4:30
                3. Mr. Rubber Sole from the Digital World 2:51
                 4. The Blooming Season 4:12

Sam Wu
7 Terraria 7:25

Leilehua Lanzilotti
8-10 we began this quilt there  
                 i. Uluhaimalama 3:35
                 ii. Ku‘u hae aloha 1:00
                 iii. Paoakalani 4:02

      Total Time:      54:39

Release date: December 6th, 2024
UPC: 053479228109

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Quotes & Reviews

“With Persist, Ethel and Loggins-Hull demonstrate their continuing commitment to compositional voices from a variety of geographies and backgrounds. The programmed works are diverse in terms of their impetuses and styles, but uniformly of high quality. Recommended.” - Christian Carey, Sequenza21

“If you enjoy contemporary classical music, I think you will enjoy this album. I found it a complete delight to hear. And I will return to it, the true test of a good album. Moreover, Sono Luminus recording engineer Daniel Shores has given us yet another of his sonic delights. I always welcome hearing his new recordings, and in this one he’s at the top of his game.” - Rush Paul, Native DSD

“Passionate, committed, hopeful and inspiring, each piece contributes to an experience which surpasses the sum of its parts.” - Anne Carlini

“This is very beautiful chamber music, steeped in European classical” - Dee Dee McNeil, Making A Scene

“Narrative-driven episodes move from rollicking chromatic ensemble lines to driving articulations on repeated chords. Tension eases as motivic fragments develop into hopeful melodies and pulsating electronic beats drive towards liberating grooves, but inevitably, each of these developments returns to a subtly changed version of the original melody and texture.” - JACOB KOPCIENSKI, I Care If You Listen

“Ethel and Loggins-Hull shape performances that are keenly alive to each sound world. The composers, including Loggins-Hull, can only be thrilled with the results.” - Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone