Modest Mussorgsky's cousin was a poet who wrote a series of poems in which Death is a personified character.  In this song, Death meets an old, drunken man coming out of a pub on a wintry night.  They dance.  Eventually, Death helps the old man to the ground and covers him with a blanket of snow.  Then there's a coda of spring coming to be followed by a time of harvest.  Very programmatic.  I orchestrated the song.

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Overture to "The Cave Dwellers" by Saroyan

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This is a piece that had been worked on for decades.  We're at a resting place with it.  For now.  This is some of what I hear in my old head.  The text is the famous poem from "Ecclesiastes" or "Koheleth."

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A beat and some instruments, not quite Murray Gold.

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