Duration 27 minutes
Instrumentation: Mezzo Soprano, Violin, Viola & Cello
Premiered by X-Band in December 2007. Rachel Calloway – Mez. Sop., Noah Geller – Violin, Eric Nowlin – Viola, Jason Calloway – Cello
This work has been removed from the active repertoire
and is no longer available for performance.
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