Music by Randolph Peters, Text by John Weier

1) In My Prison
2) Alchemy
3) Slip of Knife
4) This Violin
5) Shiver
6) Voice in the Dark

Commissioned by EMERADO
Performed at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Jan. 23, 2014

John Weier, poet
Rosemarie van der Hooft, mezzo soprano
Mel Braun, baritone
Laura Loewen, piano
Kerry DuWors, violin
Leanne Zacharias, cello

Violinmaker's Lament

The motives that evoke butterflies are the same ones that create the storm.

Butterfly Wings And Tropical Storms

Prologue to "Inanna"
Text by Margaret Atwood

City Of Dust

Dale Stammen, soprano, alto sax
Kimm Stammen, baritone sax
Judith Kehler Siebert, piano

VIRTUAL PARTICLES
-from Wilczek/Devine’s Longing for the Harmonies

Beware of thinking nothing’s there--
Remove what you can, take infinite care
There still remains a mindless seething
Of frenzied clones beyond conceiving.

In a wink, they arrive, and dance about,
Whatever they touch seems inspired to doubt:
Shall I change my identity? Move away?
These thoughts often lead to a rapid decay.

Mourn not! The terminology’s misleading:
Decay is virtual particle breeding,
And seething, though mindless, may serve noble ends:
Clone stuff, exchanged, is a bond between friends.

To be or not? The choice seems clear enough.
Hamlet vacillated; so does this stuff.

Tango For String Quartet & Three Quarks For Muster Mark!

Three Quarks For Muster Mark! - Proton

Murmurations is inspired by those amazing flight-patterns of starlings.
Starlings are great mimics and are incredibly intelligent. They can also ravage a crop in minutes and leave behind a mountain of poop. That explains why they aren’t very popular.
However, Mozart thought they were wonderful and had one as a pet for years. He had just finished his Piano Concerto No. 17 in G when he heard a starling in a market actually whistling the tune from the 3rd movement. So he purchased the bird and gave it a loving home. That theme is quoted at the beginning of this piece.

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