Specks of Earth
Specks of Earth is a collection of choral miniatures that use poetry from Rabindranath Tagore’s work Stray Birds, a collection of 326 short poems. Vivid language elicits a burst of imagery that is translated into a programmatic tapestry of sounds. Each movement sets a different fragment of the poem. The eighth movement, Fields, is the only miniature that does not use any of Tagore’s poetry, but instead uses breathing and broad, expansive structures in the piano to create a spacious soundscape. Duration: 11:45
