Photocopy; master copies of score and parts in CMC Toronto. Also exists in a version for oboe quintet.
Premiered by: Brandon University Trio, Brandon, September 13, 1995
Elizabeth Raum Searching for Sophia, 1995 Commissioned by: Premiered by: Brandon University Trio, Brandon, September 13, 1995 “The ‘Sophia’ legend is very ancient, and, like all legends there are many versions… but she always was connected to wisdom and was female.” The four movements of the trio are: ‘The Young Girl’, ‘Mother and Daughter’, ‘Prayer’, and ‘Death’. In the first movement, “… I tried to achieve a sense of birth and awakening growing into a celebration of life through song and dance”; the second, “is based on a song my mother learned from her mother and then sang to me and I sang to my children. […] “‘Prayer’, is dirge-like, depicting the prison of tradition that weighs heavily on women.”