for solo cello
World Premiere: April 30, 2004 by Hrant Parsamian, cello, New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT.
Recording by Hrant Parsamian.
Program Notes:
“…The night sheen takes over. A moon of Cistercian pallor
Has climbed to the center of heaven, installed.
Finally involved with the business of darkness.
And a sigh heaves from all the small things on earth,
The books, the papers, the old garters and union-suit buttons
Kept in a white cardboard box somewhere, and all the lower
Versions of cities flattened under the equalizing night.
The summer demands and takes away too much,
But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes.”
– from “As One Put Drunk Into the Packet-Boat,” by John Ashbery