Setting of Rubén Darío's text of the same name, translating to Tropical Evening. Winner of 2016 New American Voices Composition Competition.
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A setting of Miguel de Unamuno's poem of the same name. The poem expresses the moment of a burning of truth in the moment of death.
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Thoughtsketches features an open-ended structure that allows for improvisation. This technique is largely explored by Christian Asplund, who I studied with at the time. The first movement, Canonic Perception, has a line of text that is read by the performers at the rhythm of their choice, but within a tapped tempo. It proceeds in a round.
Synesthesia provides a uniquely colored chromatic scale for each performer. The vocalist has a list of colors with associated words to vocalize. The instrumentalists play within the limits of the colored notes according to which color they feel matches the word.
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A setting of the text of the same name by Federico García Lorca, Romance Sonambulo explores the relationships of words and ideas within the poet's bleak yet beautiful text. Lorca contrasts the joys of nature to the persecutions of the Gypsies shortly before the Spanish Civil War. For this and other poems seeking social change, Lorca was later assassinated.
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