E/Gone
David Hahn
About this work:
Egon Scotland was a Knight Fellow
in journalism at Stanford University in 1989.
I studied Serbo-Croatian in a class with him.
He was a reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung
out of Munich. While trying to gather news
of the civil war in the former-Yugoslavia, he was shot and killed. He was killed at the height of the summer when the crickets were dizzingly loud in two’s and three’s.
Premiere: Stanford University, 1993.
Year composed: 1993
Duration: 00:04:38
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Other Combinations, 2-5 players
Instrumentation: 2 Cello, 1 Prerecorded Sound (Tape/CD/Other)
Instrumentation notes: The end of the piece requires a projection of a slide which is available from the composer.