Endless for chorus a capella

(2007)

Endless is a ten-minute work in six short movements for unaccompanied, standard four-part chorus. While searching for texts to set for this particular piece, I was often confronted with prose that was too lengthy, seemed inherently unsingable, or conformed in a narrative form that was too “linear”, and ultimately not intriguing to me. I wanted texts that were simple, yet layered, clear and mysterious. I decided on using five poems of Paul Mann, which are from a large, seven-volume set of poems entitled Endless. The order of the settings is in the order in which the poems appear in Mann’s book, although they are not consecutive as such in his book, and are separated by other poems. As an afterthought, I imagined taking the shortest poem, Love’s Lens, which is from late in the volume, and use it as an epigram, setting the tone for the entire work.

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Endless is a ten-minute work in six short movements for unaccompanied, standard four-part chorus. While searching for texts to set for this particular piece, I was often confronted with prose that was too lengthy, seemed inherently unsingable, or conformed in a narrative form that was too "linear", and ultimately not intriguing to me.