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October 29, 2004, Montreal, QC, Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur
Kore, featuring:
Michiel Schrey Marc Courou Clemens Merkel D'Arcy Gray Richard Sacks
Kore offered me the opportunity of writing a new piece for voice, featuring Michiel Schrey. I was reading Poe’s work The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and was struck by its continual sense of a descent into an ever more mysterious place. (What an incredibly strange story it is.) For this composition, I extracted excerpts from a few pages near the story’s end. This piece is not a retelling of the story so much as it is a rumination on the sense of the narrative (and narrator) being adrift in unknown waters. The piece is dedicated to Cynthia Beer, brilliant teacher, dear friend.
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