Visions of a Fever Dream
for Tenor, Strings, and Harp
Music by Damien Geter
2021
Text by Joshua Banbury
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VISIONS OF A FEVER DREAM
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Text by Joshua Banbury
Music by Damien Geter
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VISION ONE into my room he reascends into my room and it begins all at once like some fever dream he comes in to engender me into my room he reascends into me and it begins
VISION TWO see the egg that broke see the pool of yolk morphing mounting into mortal flesh man in man endowed above the rest
VISION THREE how the fruitful form moves in mine man in man together limp in ecstasy divine
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VISION FOUR now on midnight skin lies the golden chain again lapped round his sweaty nape…
VISION FIVE I’ll take you to a lake undress in the morning light leave nothing in our wake undress, beloved let nothing remain undress, beloved leave only your chain
VISION SIX and so, as sunlight burned on the lake he moved in me the gold chain dangled on my face
VISION SEVEN was I seeing things in the fever dream? may the music never end into my room I pray he reascends
ProgramNotes
Visions of a Fever Dream consistsofaseriesofsevenvisionsthatcaptureamomentofecstasy betweenthenarrator(orsinger)andhislover.Eachvisionhasitsownvibewithtextures thatrangefrommoretransparenttothickermomentswhichsymbolizehigherpointsof passion.Thecelloplaysthepartofthesinger’sloverthroughout,firstappearingnoticeablyto theaudiencewithaseriesofascendingtrills,“Intomyroom,hereascends…”Ofparticular noteisVisionFivewhenthevoiceandcelloareinunison,thistime,withthenarrator singingthewordsofhispartner(thecello).
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Theyear2030willmark2000yearssincetheannunciationofTheVirginMary.Whatwould anannunciationlooklikeinthisnewage?Ibelievethisdivinebeingcouldbeconceivedby anightofpassionbetweenmen. Visions of a Fever Dream imaginesthecomingofanewdeity, maturatedbyabeautifulyoungblackman.Inthissongcycle,herecountssevenvignettes fromhisnightofecstasywithamysteriousandsupernaturalman.
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Firstprintingofthisedition,December2022
—Damien Geter (2022)
—Joshua Banbury (2022)
Entranced = 60
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Cello Contrabass
Harp
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
- - gins. All atonce. Likesomefever
Vln. II
Vla.
Vc. Cb.
Slower and without a sense of time = 50
Vln. II
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Vln. II
Morphing. Mounting
gliss. con sord. gliss. gliss. con sord. gliss. gliss. gliss. gliss. con sord. gliss. gliss. gliss. gliss.
Vla.
Vc.
Cb.
Vln. I
Vln. II
As in a daydream = 50
As before but with more passion = 60
senza sord.
senza sord.
senza sord.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
Vc.
Seetheeggthatbroke.Seethepoolofyolk.
Vc. Cb.
Maninmantogether, limp in
Vln. II
Vla.
Vc. Cb.
Vision Four
Like the switch of light = 60
Nowonmid nightskin.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
Vc.
Cb.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Cb.
Dolce = 50
Cb.
Vln. II
Vc.
Cb.
As before = 60
Vln. II Vla.
Vln. II
Cb. Hp.
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