MULTICULTURAL
The multicultural catalog is a rich body of work devoted to the creation of new music that explores the structures of non-western melody and rhythm.
AFRICA
Experimenting with African rhythmic structures… listening to the West African balangi and the language of Krio while travelling in Sierra Leone... sharing African folktales for narrator and orchestra with new audiences… dedicating a work to Rwandan peace and reconciliation…
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INDIA
Absorbing the beauty of South Indian dance, music and poetry… the slow, unfolding of the raga in the alap…the dark timbre of the veena…the staccato of the mridangam drum… being drawn into the language of Sanskrit… creating my own harmonies from my favorite raga- rasikapriya…
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NATIVE AMERICAN
Exploring the power of the human voice in chant… collaborating with LISTEN to create NightChants… the extraordinary translations of Navajo, Caxinua, Crow, Eskimo poetry by W.S. Merwin… the Osage women’s planting song – “I have made a footprint, a sacred one…”
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OTHER CULTURES
Searching for other musical structures to frame new works… writing for Javanese gamelan and choir… collaborating with Chinese flutist Ying Zhang… researching Persian modes in a setting of Hafiz… the joy of having the Hmong qeej ensemble perform in Nine-in-One Grr! Grr!
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