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Score includes versions in C - Treble Clef, C - Alto Clef, C - Bass Clef, Bâ™ - Treble Clef, G - Treble Clef, F - Treble Clef, and Eâ™ - Treble Clef
Feb. 23, 2019, The Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, BC
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, William Rowson, Conductor
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The Library of Babel is inspired by the short story by Argentine author (and librarian) Jorge Luis Borges. In the story the characters live in a universe in the form of an infinite library. Each room of this library contains shelves of books with a seemingly random series of letters. It is theorized that the endless collection of books would contain every possible combination of letters, therefore every work ever written, and everything that ever could be written, including, somewhere, the index to the library itself. While my work is somewhat more finite it does have a series of melodic cells to be performed at the musician’s discretion which are taken from an actual melody that never reveals itself.
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