baritone
viola
cello
percussion : vibraphone, crotales, and glockenspiel
text by Mark Strand
Duration: 7 minutes
About
Mark Strand's poem, "Another Place," from his book
The Late Hour (1978), fascinates me because it combines simple and concise
language with a complex and subtle structure. Any single line taken on its own
might seem simplistic or banal. But put together, these simple building blocks
create a rich narrative that somehow seems at once linear, symmetrical, and
circular.
The Late Hour was written for Royaumont Voix Nouvelles.