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‘Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard’ Performances April 30 and May 1

This piece was originally commissioned by the Ear Taxi Festival in Chicago in 2016.  The festival coincided with the 100th anniversary of the publication of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems collection so I decided to set one of those poems.

Many of them are homages to a muscular, urban city but I found one that almost like a haiku.  Called Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, it’s a different kind of poem.  Still, meditative. The image is of moonlight reflecting onto a small pool of water in a brickyard at night after the laborers have long since gone home.  I was smitten.

The piece was premiered twice as part of the festival and then sat on the proverbial shelf for six years. Until now!  Random Access Music will be performing the work twice this upcoming weekend.  Once on April 30 at Culture Lab in Queens and then the following night at the National Opera Center in Manhattan.

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