Voice, Sarah Grace Graves
Clarinet, George Papajohn
(Composed by the performers)

Recorded Live at CNMAT in Berkeley, CA | May 8, 2024

TEXT

Prologue - Hommage to Amacher (Ps. 101*:2 BSV) 
	
…clamor meus ad te veniat.

[let my cry come to you.]

/GP/

I. (Ps. 102:6-7 NRSV)

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness,
	like a little owl of the waste places.
I like awake;
	I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.

/GP/

II. Passer Solitarius (Ps. 101*:8 BSV)

…factus sum sicut passer solitarius in tecto.

[I am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.]

/SGG/

III. (Ps. 102:4, 24 LUTH1545)

Mein Herz is geschlagen und verdorrt wie Gras, daß ich auch vergesse, mein Brot zu essen.
…
Mein Gott nimm mich nicht weg in der Hälfte meiner Tage!

[My heart is stricken and withered like grass, such that I have forgotten to eat my bread.
…
My God, do not take me away but halfway through my days!]

/GP/

IV. Passer Multus (Ps. 101*:8 BSV)

…factus sum sicut…

/SGG/

V. (Ps. 102:17, 13)

He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
	 and will not despise their prayer.
…
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion…

/GP/

VI. (Ps. 101*:2 BSV)
	
[…cl-] a [-mor m-] e [-us….]

/SGG/

Burlesque (Ps. 101:2-3, 5 NRSV)

I will study the way that is blameless.
	When shall I attain it?

I will walk with integrity of heart
	in my house;
I will not set before my eyes
	anything base.

I hate the work of those who fall away;
	it shall not cling to me.
…
One who secretly slanders a neighbor
	I will destroy.
A haughty look and an arrogant heart
	I will not tolerate.

/GP/

* = The numbering of Psalms in the Latin Vulgate is different than the NRSV: Ps. 101* denotes the same Psalm as Ps. 102.

Passer Solitarius | with Sarah Grace Graves

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Horizons brings together music written for contemporary dance between 2021 and 2024, tracing an emotional journey through four years of creative collaboration and movement. Blending all sorts of sound textures, these works trace moments of movement, stillness, and emotional depth, capturing the evolving dialogue between sound and the body.

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George Papajohn (b. 1998 Milwaukee) is a composer, improvisor, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent work engages with latent tensions of identity held within the material, historical, and phenomenological aspects of sound. 

His music has been performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble, and by frequent collaborators Cameron Roberts and Julia Ansolabehere. George earned his B.M. in music composition at the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music where he studied with Alex Mincek, Hans Thomalla, and Jay Alan Yim. He is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at the University of California, Berkeley.

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