Sea Wind (2010)
The title and pitches of Sea Wind are derived from the Chilean musician/poet Victor Jara's song Angelita Huenuman.
In the Pocuno Valley where the sea wind rebounds where the rains nourish the moss there lives Angelita Huenuman.
Among the manio and the hualles among the trees among the fragrance of the flowers lives Angelita Huenuman.
Guarded by five dogs a son that love left behind as simple as her small farm the world spins around.
The red blood of the copihue runs in your veins, Huenumann in the light coming through a window Angelita weaves her life.
Her hands dance with the thread like the small wings of an insect it is a miracle how she weaves even the fragrance of the flower.
Angelita, in your looms there is time, tears and sweat there are the ignored hands of this, my creative people.
After months of labor the cloth looks for a buyer and as the caged bird sings for the highest bidder.
This piece was written for Thomas Schultz with support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation. It received its world premiere in San Francisco in September 2010 and the European premiere in October 2010 at Salle Cortot in Paris (this performance was supported by the Subito grant of the American Composers Forum).
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