PERUSALSCORE
Today I Remember
a song cycle
forSoprano, Viola,and Piano (2025)
PERUSALSCORE
RENE ORTH
Today I Remember
a song cycle
c.10 min
for Soprano, Viola, and Piano (2025)
TODAY I REMEMBER
commissioned by Rose Wollman
"Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox. I intended to come to America to earn a living. The Western-style buildings are lofty, but I have not the luck to live in them. How was anyone to know that my dwelling place woudl be a prison?" --an Angel Island poem
Soprano
2. Illusions
Illusion and I Traveled over the ocean Hunting money trees. -Kijo
slowly gliss back and forth between pitches, not in time
3. Today, I am a Witness to Change
portions of a community poem written in response to the rising violence against Asian Americans due to President Trump's labeling of Covid-19 as "Kung-flu" and the "China Virus"
