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Trio
2022
Alto
Harp
Unpitched Percussion
- Program Notes
- Klar bäck, or Clear Creek in English, is named after the Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center in Denton, TX. The area is a beautiful nature reserve with a prairie of native wildflowers, a small wetland, trails, and the Clear Creek itself. I was moved by the poetry of E. F. Hayward in his collection Poems from the North Woods, so I set three poems for this song cycle. The connection to nature that Hayward writes about, is both a very human and very magical thing. It's a sentiment at the core of the ancient Swedish practice of kulning, a feminine style of singing or herding call. I have leaned into kulning for several aspects of this piece, but in Unafraid, which is a quick but reluctant acceptance of Death, I find a spiritual dwelling that can only be expressed through the haunting, piercing, and melismatic cry of kulning.
- Recording Notes
- Recorded at Beige Cowell's Senior Composition Capstone Recital "Music, Magic, & the Queer Experience" at the University of North Texas, February 6th at 8pm in Voertman Concert Hall
- Performer Credits
- Helena Vassiliades, Zoe O'Shaughnessy
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