One Rainy Day

Mirror Image

Drone

Highway Heat

space cat

Somewhere Under The Rainbow

HORIZON

Skies Beyond

daydream

Enchantment for orchestra and choir

written for and premiered at the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Cortona, Italy) on May 30th, 2018

score available here: https://issuu.com/politimusic/docs/politi_spoken_softly_in_the_eaves__2018_

Kristen Zelenak, soprano saxophone
Gavin Goodwin, alto saxophone
David Baker, tenor saxophone
Will Marchetti, baritone saxophone

Geoffrey Deibel, coach



program note:

So summer comes in the end to these few stains,
and the rust and rot of the door through which she went.

The house is empty.
But here is where she sat to comb her dewy hair,
a touch-less light, perplexed by its darker iridescences.

This is the glass in which she used to look
at the moment’s being, without history,
the self of summer perfectly perceived,
and feel its country gaiety
and smile and be surprised
and tremble, hand and lip.

This is the chair in which she used to sit,
her dress, the carefullest commodious weave,
woven by a weaver to twelve bells.

The dress is lying cast-off on the floor.
Now the first tutoyers of tragedy
speak softly, to begin with, in the eaves.

	- Wallace Stevens, The Beginning (from Auroras of Autumn [1950])

artwork: Cy Twombly, "untitled" (1968)

spoken softly in the eaves (2018)

spoken softly in the eaves (2018)

Nicholas Politi

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