That Which Is Adorned (2007)
Instrumentation: Mezzo Soprano, Violin, Viola & Cello
Duration 27 minutes
Premiered by X-Band in December 2007. Rachel Calloway – Mez. Sop., Noah Geller – Violin, Eric Nowlin – Viola, Jason Calloway – Cello
Three settings of English translations of Arab-Andalusian poems. The settings are inspired by the traditional genre of muwashshahaat music and the text is from Cola Franzen’s Poems of Arab Andalusia.
I. To A Persian Reed Blown About By The Wind
II. Absence
III. White Stallion
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