(2024)

Duration: ca. 4:00

For mixed voices a cappella (SATB).

The first performance will be given by Concerto Vocale. The piece is dedicated to Concerto Vocale & Moritz Tempel.

Rehearsal tracks for all voices are available.

We ask about the unknown,
the invisible, the forgotten.
We want to know the secret,
the intimate, the lost.

We don’t say, “How was
your waking?” No, we want
what can’t be told, the part
that’s blind, deaf, mythic.

Later, we can make small talk.
But first, before we surrender
to all that, and go to work,
we ask about the dark, the deep.

                                                         (Kim Stafford)