Voice: Quiet on the set, and any time.

This week on Inland Sessions... ♪ Amanda Howard-Phillips, Spokane Symphony principal second violinist performs music from composers Eugene Ysaye, Mark O'Connor and Chickasaw Nation composer Jerod Tate.

♪ My name is Amanda Howard-Phillips.

I play Principal Second Violin in the Spokane Symphony, and I play Second Violin in the Spokane String Quartet.

My first piece is by Belgian violinist/composer Eugene Ysaye.

The reason I chose this piece is it is such a fiery, exciting piece that shows off all the regions of the violin, the voilinist's capabilities.

It's exciting.

It's crazy and it's a lot of fun to play.

♪ ♪ Next piece is called "Oshta" by Jerod Tate.

Jerod Tate is an American Indian composer, a member of the Chickasaw Tribe.

He writes, "The work is closely based upon a Choctaw church hymn that was composed in the 1800's.

One unique artistic development that grew out of European contact is the modern American Indian church hymn.

As missionaries fanned out across Indian country, they became the first to document our Native languages, and create translations of The Bible and other Christian texts, including church hymns.

This almost immediately led to a new series of hybrid music, composed by tribal citizens.

For southeast Indians, that is Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole, this hybrid style of music is now and contains a vast repertoire.

"Oshta" presents the Choctaw Hymn 35 as a centerpiece.

And is embedded within my abstractions of the melody and my feelings of the ancient time in which it was originally composed."

♪ ♪ I feel really strongly about adding to the classical repertoire by playing music by living composers and playing music by people of color, people that sometimes haven't had the opportunity to have their voice shared in classical music.

So, that's kind of a mission of mine.

I decided to present a program solo violin because it's a different side of violin playing.

There's a vast repertoire of music for solo violin.

And, usually when people think of solo violin music, the first thing that comes to mind is sonatas and partitas by Bach.

And so I decided to go in a completely different direction and just play music from the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

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