A new setting of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore's playful poem "Paper Boats" for a cappella mixed choir, written for the Oregon Bach Festival Composer's Symposium. This is the first of four settings in a cycle of Tagore's poetry. 

This particular recording features the OBF American Creators Chorus under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson.

Paper Boats (2013)

Pastiche-ios! (I. Vertigo + II. Reverie)

Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

—William Blake

Ah Sunflower

Written for the American Creators Chorus (dir. by Craig Hella Johnson) at the 2014 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium.

Performed June 10, 2016 by a small group from the Clark College Chorale (dir. April Brookins Duvic)and directed by Brandon Stewart.

VVVVV

"mi amor descubre objetos" by Isabel Fraire
.

mi amor descubre objetos 
sedosas mariposas 
se ocultan en sus dedos 

sus palabras 
me salpican de estrellas 

bajo los dedos de mi amor la noche 
brilla como relámpago 

mi amor inventa mundos en que habitan 
serpientes cuajadas de brillantes 

mundos en que la música es el mundo 

mundos en que las casas con los ojos abiertos 
contemplan el amanecer 

mi amor es un loco girasol que olvida 
pedazos de sol en el silencio
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"my love reveals objects" by Isabel Fraire
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my love reveals objects
silken butterflies
concealed in his fingers

his words
splash me with stars

under my love's fingers, the night
shines like lightning

my love invents worlds where
jeweled glittering serpents live

worlds in which music is the world

worlds where houses with open eyes
contemplate the dawn

my love is a mad sunflower that forgets
fragments of sun in the silence
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More poetry written by this amazing poet can be found at isabelfraire.com

"mi amor descubre objetos" for mixed choir

Sharp Edges for solo clarinet (2015)
Commissioned by Christopher Grymes. Premiered at East Carolina University on January 23, 2015. 

Sharp Edges for solo clarinet (2015)

Ensemble Modern&HR  Frankfurt/M.

Solistin : Nina Janßen-Deinzer

Edition Peters Frankfurt/M. 
https://www.edition-peters.de/cms/deutsch/general/komponist.html?composer_id=3425

iv 7 für Kontrabassklarinette

Paired with the poem by <a href="http://plthomaspoetry.blogspot.com/" target="_paulhm">P. L. Thomas:</a>

<a href="http://plthomaspoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-other-snowflakes-and-ashes-pt-1.html" target="_blank">no other (snowflakes and ashes) pt. 1</a>



Visit:  <a title="“snowflakes &amp; ashes”" href="http://www.peterbkay.com/music/snowflakes-and-ashes/" target="_blank">http://peterbkay.com/snowflakes-and-ashes</a>

snowflakes & ashes (Live)

" ...simultaneously innovative, intellectually stimulating, but most of all emotionally moving." - Maria Choban, Oregon ArtsWatch