November Night (2024) c. 9'

for SSATB Choir / Written for Syracuse University Singers

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Text by Adelaide Crapsy:

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Listen...

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees,

And fall.

 

Program Notes:

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Adelaide Crapsy (1878-1914) is a poet renowned for her invention of the cinquain form. When I first discovered her poem "November Night" (published 1915), I was utterly moved by her ability to create an evocative and otherwolrdly atmosphere with only a few lines of text. November Night (2024) creates a meditative experience for audiences, bringing listeners through an immersive journey of her poem—capturing the intimate nature of her text with a sparse and ethereal soundscape, and creating a sense of sonic and linguistic ambiguity with intricate ways of layering vowels and consonants over one another.

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Recording coming soon!