Seven Stanzas: Ancient Egyptian Love Songs

Mar 5

A set of seven poems from Late Ramesside Egypt depicting the unattainable love between two nondescript characters. This vague, imprint-able text provides ample opportunity for exploration of my cultural, musical heritage, and deeply challenges me to integrate both my distance and proximity to these things as a second generation Copt. Recordings from my childhood, musical elements from Egyptian classical music, Egyptian folk music, and Coptic liturgical music, all populate this work's sound world.

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Instrumentation

mezzo-soprano, tenor, fl, cl in B-flat, 2perc, pno, vn, vc, electronics

Duration

c. 30 min.