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Power Surge

HARRIETLEHRE for orchestra

Performed on December 9, 2021 by the Yale Philharmonia
© 2021 Harriet Steinke

Album art features original prints by Muriel Steinke / www.murielsteinke.com

Harrietlehre for Orchestra

Tenor: Andrés Peñalver

"Wild and Willful"
by Nevada Lozano

Once
We were wild and willful
We were fame-seekers, fortune-hunters
Recklessly chasing frontiers,
Thrilled and enthralled by
The violent whimsy of the world
Sails unfurled,
We cut across vast,
Turbulent oceans in search of
Unspoiled land
Unsoiled sand

Now
We travel in uncompromising lines,
Plot our lives on narrow graphs
Once verdant fields
Lie laced and latticed with cement,
Transformed
Into the rigid grid
Of city streets, which we navigate
With all the spontaneity
Of beads on an abacus

Once
You were wild and willful
Racked with wrath,
Prompted by some vague,
Unearned, unlearned bitterness
To cut a path
Through the forests of your future,
To surge forward with the surf,
Claiming a virgin shore

Now
You travel in uncompromising lines
To precise points on a finite plane,
Having grown weary
And wary of the dangers
Of frontier life
Flanked by snarling regrets,
Flecked with a dismal drizzle,
You stand,
A weather-withered monument
To the person you once were

Wild And Willful

Raymonde, ou l'évasion verticale

Raymonde (générique de Fin)

Epitaph,(2019)
Text: Seiklos Epitaph, trans. Kalcheim

As long as you live, Shine!
Do not grieve at all. 
Life is but for a short while;
Time demands your end.

Alison Kaufman, soprano
Grant Mack, Piano

University of Oregon School of Music and Dance
October, 2019

Epitaph (art song -- 2019)

TOO BRIGHT TO SEE for string quartet

Live Performance on November 6, 2020

Performed by the Omer Quaret
Mason Yu, violin 
Erica Tursi, violin
Jinsun Hong, viola
Alex Cox, cello

© 2020 Harriet Steinke

too bright to see (Live Performance)

Marlen Nahas — Luz
Katerina Burton — Jenny
Sam Weiser — Ésteban/Gary
Conducted by David Neely

Read at the 2021 Washington National Opera American Opera Initiative Workshop, April

Las Auténticas

Dakota Corbliss — Horn
Matt Castner — Saxophone

Outdoor Warnings

as winged branches adrift, apart (2020)

premiered in Tokyo, Japan, July 2020
Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Schoichiro Tanaka, piano

Written for Tokyo to New York's "Moments in this Time" benefit concert for musicians affected by the 2020 pandemic. 

Program note:
As its title suggests, winged branches aims to give rise to deeply rooted material while it reaches further into a parallel universe. A sense of hopeful longing accompanied the writing of this piece and is reflected in imploring gestures and ambiguous harmonies.

as winged branches adrift, apart

Stick Together

John Albert Harris is a composer, producer, and creator of cinematic graphic novels. He is based in New York City.

Wild And Willful

John Albert Harris

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