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This definitely has the character of a Jewish dance! I can imagine them hopping in a circle LoL. I think you use some unusual harmonies in certain places and it sounds perfectly appropriate for the character of the piece. Nice job and thanks for sharing! Hopefully your school orchestra can perform this after everyone gets their vaccine later this year!

I enjoyed listening to this, particularly the development section which contains Bachian passages (if such a term exists).

Ah I see! I didn't notice that at all in the small score video LoL Thank you for pointing that out!

Hello! I am just wondering - did you write this with a scordatura tuning for the cello in mind? You wrote a low B below the C below the staff in bass clef (the C is usually the lowest note on cello). Another thing that jumped out at me in this is that you write some very muddy voicings for the piano which I am not sure is the best choice in a piece which features a cello solo. Although you do use the cello very often in it's alto range here, sometimes you voice an E minor chord for example in measure 9 with the cello on an E below the staff in bass clef and the piano with a B below that making it a 6/4 chord which can be a particularly dissonant sonority and especially since those two tones are so close together. Measure 10 is also quite a muddy voicing especially in the piano. Although I have heard that because the tone color of the cello is so different from the piano that sometimes these kinds of rules can be ignored, but I do think that your piece might sound unnecessarily muddy in many places if it were performed live. Thanks for sharing!