Composed by Julietta Rabens
Performed by Liz Cifani, harp, Gail Williams, horn

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Meditation on a Fallen Leaf for horn and harp

Ruth 13 Blessed Be The Lord

Ruth 10 Under His Wings

Ruth 9 The Lord Repay

Ruth 8 In Your Eyes

Ruth 7 Stay Close By

Ruth 6 To The Fields

Ruth 5 The Journey

Ruth 4 Wherever You Go

Ruth 3 Turn Back

Ruth 2 It Came To Pass

Ruth 1 Overture

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a chamber opera for soprano, string quartet, harp, and piano based on the story of the same title by Charlotte Perkins Gilman written in 1899

3A Artistic Sin Aria OLD

2 Ancestral Halls Final

1 Overture Final

La Llorona composed by Julietta Rabens and performed by Cathy Hawthorne on flute and Julietta on harp. Performed for the 2012 Composer Symposium at University of New Mexico.

The inspiration for this work comes from Lynda Edward’s research and reporting on the mythology created by homeless children in the U.S. and Mexico. The titles of the pieces represent the two maternal figures in this folklore. The first is the Blue Lady, an angel who lives in the ocean and is powerless to help protect the children unless they know her secret name. The second maternal figure is Black Mary or La Llorona who marks the children for death. The expressive realm of this piece explores a broader background of the La Llorona myth, a poignant tale of being discarded. After exploring a frantic, dissonant world that searches but cannot find, it ends with the obsessive repetition of a few chords that rock gently as a cradle. The sounds of unstable, weak mourning fade into nonexistence.

La Llorona for flute and harp

MM Harp Northern Illinois University 2005
Harp studies with Liz Cifani, Healing Harps with Dr. Ron Price
DMA, MM Composition University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2002, 1995
Composition studies with Dr. Randall Snyder
Piano studies with Dr. Nicole Narboni

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