Darker
Jason Freeman
About this work:
With this setting of Mark Strand's poem, I wanted to write a piece that reflected my own experience as a reader.
This poem fascinates me because Strand builds an incredibly rich and complex interweaving of imagery and form out of short phrases, simple words, and bare language. None of the seven short fragments quite make sense on their own; each sets up an image of some sort which isn't exactly logical, for which I can't construct a mental picture. Yet while the fragments are undeniably interconnected, it is also not quite clear how they relate to one another. There are too many gaps to fill in, too much is missing.
Year composed: 2001
Duration: 00:08:00
Ensemble type: Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Solo Voice with Keyboard
Instrumentation: 1 Piano, 1 Soprano