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Posted on January 1, 2007January 12, 2021

Memory (2007)

Soprano, alto, tenor bass. 12 ½ mins.

I. Senses – mp3
II. Recollection – mp3
III. Inward Action – mp3
IV. This Power of Memory – mp3
or… all in one mp3

A multi-movement setting of an excerpt from St. Augustine‘s “Confessions” about memory and sense. (English translation by Henry Chadwick.) Recipient of 2008 Elizabeth Brockman Composition Award at The Playhouse Project.

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