Indiscriminately (2014)

for soprano, alto saxophone, piano

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Based on poetry by Yiannis Ritsos.

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duration:

5'

premiere:

The Ritsos Project Ensemble

Sophie Burgos, soprano | Michele Bianchini, saxophone | Daniel Pesca, piano

June 2014

Athens & Samos, Greece

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text:

Behind the ancient wall, 

amid the battlements, 

amid the holes left by the fallen stones, 

the dead,
with wild, dilated eyes, 
watched 
the young hunter pissing

on a broken pediment. 

So, then, if life is lying, death is lying, too.
 

Yiannis Ritsos, trans. N.C. Germanacos
(from the collection: Corridor and Stairs, 1970)

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