Voices: SSAA, large chamber - Lying in a Field, Age 67

Ensemble: chorus (SSAA), flute, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, piano, percussion, violin, cello, double bass

Duration: 6 minutes

Commissioned by: Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Premiered: National Sawdust, NYC, New York

Published by: Yes Daedalus Music

Note:

These two songs, written for Brooklyn Youth Chorus with playwright Max Posner, are a meditation on memory and age. In many of the speaker's experiences, they were quiet when everybody around them was loud. In one section of the piece the speaker describes being part of a youth chorus. But even then, they admit, "I just mouthed all the words." As long-lost memories come flooding back, the music gives voice to things left unsaid long ago.

Perusal score: view here