Two Songs (2018)

for voice, bass flute, and violoncello

1. The same text from Save Only the Expectation for String Trio is here contextualized with a moment of advocation from Genesis – a response to Ockeghem’s lament; facing death, one can turn to their responsibility for another before them.

   I am, myself, ashes and dust. (Genesis)

   Fors seulement latente que je meure, En mon las cueur, nul espoir ne demeure (Ockeghem)

2. Is harmonic immanence a beginning? Is our relationship with such already limited by an instrument? This is a search for how to begin.

   Listen, O Heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O Earth, the words from my mouth. (Deuteronomy)

   To think of origin, is that not first of all to test the origin? (Jabès, Desire for a Beginning)

premiered by D.A.D

Madison Greenstone (voice), Michael Matsuno (bass flute), and Tyler J. Borden (violoncello)

studio recording, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of San Diego California, October 14th 2018

Alexandria Smith (recording engineer)

score

recordings

1. Save Only the Expectation

2. Desire for a Beginning