60 Depot Street, Verona, NJ 07044
mail@subitomusic.com • 973-857-3440
(not yet available)
Anna Elder, soprano • Sarah Steranka, flute
Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble • Daniel Nesta Curtis, conductor
Kresge Theater • Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
"Behind the Eyes" was composed for two members of Pittsburgh's contemporary quintet, Kamratōn – Anna Elder (soprano) and Sarah Steranka (flute), and for the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble. The text is adapted from a poem of the same name by Matthew Galbraith, the composer's husband. In addition to the soloists and ensemble, the performance will be accompanied with a pre-recorded "fixed media" sound track, which includes a female trio (recorded by Ms. Elder) and an array of ambient sounds created by the composer.
"Behind the Veil" was composed to accompany the premiere of "Behind the Eyes," using the same soloists and ensemble, and featuring text by Mr. Galbraith's poem of the same name.
Behind the veil
Something rather than nothing exists
Imagined yet real beyond spacetimelessness
Something like music or white noise adrift in the silences
Foreshadowed the unborn idea that created itself
Then filled the void with trillions of suns
From a flame that burned before the ONE
Who emerged from behind the veil
— Matthew Galbraith
Zero Sum: Poems of Equilibrium (2020)