Piece: a tulip, iron
Composer: Angela Elizabeth Slater
Librettist: Kendra Preston Leonard
Performers: Ben Caston, Rebeca Lemos Gonzalez, Amanda Hamilton, Manuela Muller, Claire Vangelisti
Conductor: Mel Mobley
Event: 8th New Music on the Bayou Festival
Date: June 7, 2024
Location: Walker & Co. (The Loft), Ruston, Louisiana
Video: Joseph Ham
Audio: Westly Heflin
Notes: When I approached Kendra for a unique text to set, I asked her to explore memory as something difficult, questioning why certain things happened the way they happened, questioning yourself and whether things were your own fault. I wanted the text to draw on the deep intense emotions that still bubble over the surface from the bullying and gaslighting. I experienced at school. I have found this text deeply emotionally powerful to set. Alongside this, I engaged with the visual stimulus of Perle Fine's work The Early Morning Garden. Taken together, these helped me find a soundworld that is a mixture of fragility and strength, whilst exploring the nuances of colours and distinct gestural shapes for both the string players and the vocalists. The piece should be treated as an imagined scene from a larger narrative trajectory set ambiguously in memory or somewhere real; perhaps it is both.
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