The biblical Book of Lamentations, which documents the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 586 BCE, is a text of both religious and historical significance. It was the latter aspect that I had in mind when I wrote this piece in the year 2022 CE while watching, from half a world away and nearly in real time, the destruction of cities now achieving a historical significance of their own: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol...
Wisconsin Alliance for Composers New Music Festival
April 16, 2023
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater