For Holy Week.
De Profundis (Bob Moore, Joe Yorio, Tony Steve)
Victimae Paschali Laudes

Victimae Paschali Laudes

A work based on government surveillance of innocent citizens over 70 years.
A reminder that somewhere, each of us may be someone's agenda. Often the agenda setters are nefarious and have very little positive energy.

Tony Steve Live You Are My AGENDA(with Live Percussion)

The piece was written upon hearing a description of a concert goers travels. Two ladies were discussing their travels around the globe. One asks the other if she had been to Corfu. The response to the query was simply put to those of us at the table: "Yes, I was in Corfu when I was younger." She continued, "And there I was a young virgin on Corfu."
I looked at all around the table a told them that was a perfect line for the title of a piece. The title and text are not related, but they could be.
Below is the text for the piece.
"A part of us remains and that half-self
still wanders through those well-remembered ways;
Until sometimes we feel as if we were
a shade that alternates between two lives
A ghost inhabiting two worlds, and yet
Not fully fleshed..." 
“Let something of me still remain behind; A verse a cadence, to outlive the clay;
Let some reflect, some glimmer of my mind Recall the passage of my little day.”
(Theodore Stephanides, ‘City of the Mind.’)

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