Cave for SATB choir, oboe, and percussion (2012)
13-14 minutes
Setting an evocative text by Richard Lewis (the complete title of which is Cave: An Evocation of the Beginnings of Art), Cave begins with an incantatory opening, and continues through an exploration of the notion that while animals gave prehistoric humans life by feeding them, those humans also gave animals a kind of life by drawing them. The premiere performance was given by the Crane Concert Choir, Rebecca Reames, conductor, with oboist Lillia Woolschlager and percussionist Brandon Bromsey--please enjoy the video of the premiere performance below. (The text, as well as the photographs by George Hirose of sculpture by Elizabeth Crawford, is ©2003 by Touchstone Center Publications and used with permission. The video quality is somewhat unclear due to the lowered lighing required for projecting the photographs.)
13-14 minutes
Setting an evocative text by Richard Lewis (the complete title of which is Cave: An Evocation of the Beginnings of Art), Cave begins with an incantatory opening, and continues through an exploration of the notion that while animals gave prehistoric humans life by feeding them, those humans also gave animals a kind of life by drawing them. The premiere performance was given by the Crane Concert Choir, Rebecca Reames, conductor, with oboist Lillia Woolschlager and percussionist Brandon Bromsey--please enjoy the video of the premiere performance below. (The text, as well as the photographs by George Hirose of sculpture by Elizabeth Crawford, is ©2003 by Touchstone Center Publications and used with permission. The video quality is somewhat unclear due to the lowered lighing required for projecting the photographs.)