still distant, still here for large ensemble
(2010)
still distant, still here was composed at my home in San Francisco during the Winter 2010. The work is for large mixed ensemble and was commissioned by and is dedicated to Southwest Chamber Music as part of the Ascending Dragon Project, sponsored by the United States State Department, with the generous support of the James Irvine Foundation. The work is 12 minutes long. It is based on the following poem by Paul Mann:
Zakhor, recall
always how taken
from chains of sheker
husk within husk
Bring us to remember year
after year bring us
to You
still distant, still here
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