About this work: Published by: PEER INTERNATIONAL CORP. (BMI)
The composer’s epigraph running through the score of this work reads:
“At war anew, the raw ugliness of the inevitable gun pierces and shoots, shoots and pierces deeply into our souls made jittery-crazy by the memories of past madness. The memories shake us hard-until we feel the gun at our heads as it fires the bullets of forced acceptance we fend off by saying ‘funk you, we do not accept this!” We sing crazy and chant ‘Funk you, funk you!’ But their subtle sly weight presses down, down, down, until we feel funked by denial and silence. So crazier we sin, ‘Ahh, funk you, funk,’ so that their gun of suppression is drawn again and fires away in blind burst, both raw and insistent, but ultimately powerless to the truth, which gives us the blues-a dirge both raw and mournful. We sing to our Mother with hard hearts, bitter hearts, tender hearts, confused hearts, loving hearts, sad hearts, until we cry for her and the tears cleanse our souls, or so we hope, for we always seem to feel and hear the echo of the gun which pierces and shoots into our souls made jittery-crazy by today’s madness. We pray loudly.”
“Mad Coyote Sings was written in response to the Persian Gulf War and is intended to be a voice crying out against not just that war, but war in general. It reminds us that the madness which causes war, no matter how cloaked in righteousness, can never erase the fact that when a bomb is dropped, we too do the dropping, and when that bomb strikes, it strikes us all, and that ultimately no matter what humans do to each other while on the earth, it will be the earth alone that will survive. This work is dedicated to the redefinition of manhood, based on Paul Fusell’s theory that until this is accomplished, wars will continue to rage and be waged all over the world.”
- Jerome Kitzke
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