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Additional Info
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ComposerJohn Harbison
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PublisherAssociated Music Publishers Inc
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ArrangementVoice/Ensemble (VCE/ENS)
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FormatScore and Parts
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Genre20th Century
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TextEnglish; Robert Bly, Wallace Stevens; James Wright
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LanguageEnglish
Description
For soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello. Every cultural era redefines its relationship to nature, and recently these definitions have become increasingly urgent, artificial, even anxious. As nature becomes more remote from daily reality, its images hardly diminish in art: the less we have, the more we seem to need. The musical images in this piece are far distant from Beethoven's rustling brooks, the broad mountain space of Mahler's open fifths, or even the mimetic accuracy of Messaien's birds. The crickets and crow in my piece are transcriptions, but transcriptions made to navigate in our world of phase shifts and "migrating" harmonies. — John Harbison. In four movements: Prelude. I. Where We Must Look For Help II. On The Road Home III. Milkweed