Penelope (6-8 person mixed chamber + mezzo arrangement)

(2010)  Duration: 60′.  11-song cycle (with three instrumental interludes.)  Words by Ellen McLaughlin.  Songs can be performed separately.

for fl/alto fl/picc, cl/bass cl — French horn/tmpt* — drums/perc (glock, egg shaker, BD, gro, tri, 2 crot., fing cymb) –mezzo-soprano — e.gtr/violin*, viola, cello — laptop.

*or two separate players

Commissioned by Shara Worden and yMusic.
World Premiere: October 18, 2010 by Shara Worden and yMusic, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY.

To listen to a live performance (Merkin Hall, Ecstatic Music Festival) of excerpts from this arrangement, go here.
To stream the album Penelope, go here.

1. The Stranger with the Face of a Man I Loved (5:44)
2. This Is What You’re Like (5:07)
3. The Honeyed Fruit (string quartet and electronics) (:54)
4. The Lotus Eaters (6′)
5. Nausicaa (3′)
6. Circe and the Hanged Man (4:16)
7. I Died of Waiting (string quartet and electronics) (1:10)
8. Home (6:23)
9. Dead Friend (2:48)
10. Calypso (4:46)
11. And Then You Shall Be Lost Indeed (string quartet and electronics) (1:09)
12. Open Hands (1:06)
13. Baby Teeth, Bones, and Bullets (6:10)
14. As He Looks Out to Sea (5:51)