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little lovely images 5:200:00/5:20
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0:00/8:05
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0:00/6:35
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The Seven Sayings 8:290:00/8:29
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Sleepless Nights 3:030:00/3:03
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She Told Her Beads 4:440:00/4:44
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Messe des Perdus 19:300:00/19:30
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Instrumentation
SSATB voices
Duration
4'45"
Premiere
The Hour Prior (May 13, 2019)
Additional Performances
Metal on Pavement, a Peabody Institute Vocal Chamber Ensemble (April 25, 2023)
Listen
Program Note
ARGO is, at its core, a reflection on loss and separation filtered through the lens of Caroline Preziosi’s poem of the same name. The text speaks to the loss of something or someone and the reader’s inability to turn back to that thing or to hold on too tightly to its memory. Similarly, the music of ARGO seeks to capture the ever fragmenting, reunifying, and slipping away of a memory as time passes.
ARGO by Caroline Preziosi
the landscape is made
into windows of the car at the station alone
bronzed with dust and wheat
a penny on the ground counts back
ten years of dying, never
and not afraid of it
passing through the headland
the closed or open window
which is false with nothing outside
this time I
will be Orpheus
white loaded asphalt out of the claim
to go to her in the garden
not walking through smoke
not whipping up dust but rather
the sound of metal falling onto pavement
some but not all
of something
down among dead gods
leaves close at night and again
the girl is held
by plaster palms and again
wheels tire
over dry earth turning back
crumbling
into sand