A Friend and a ZorroPERUSALSCORE
for tenor solo, cello, and piano
Kamala Sankaram
PERUSALSCORE
A Friend and a Zorro
for tenor solo, cello, and piano
Kamala Sankaram
Performance Notes
Cello:
P = pizz
A = arco
FG = freely gliss upward
+= play open string with left thumb
Text
(based on an interview with Dr. R. Sankaram)
As a boy I could see myself on a movie screen
Along with pretty places, pretty people wearing fancy clothes, speaking fancy words. I believed in make-believe. I believed.
But my father did not believe. He did not believe in me.
As a man, nephrology was my occupation, setting in motion a journey from Andhra Pradesh to California. I journeyed for my father
But I still believed in make-believe. I believed. He still did not believe in me.
One day I drove from home to Hollywood to see for myself
Pretty places, pretty people wearing fancy clothes, speaking fancy words. They were not as I remembered!
Merely sets, actors, costumes, and scripts. How could they be so artificial–Was this what I once believed?
Instrumentation
PERUSALSCORE
Tenor Solo
Cello
Piano
Duration: 6'
First printing, March 2024
Copyright ©2021 Kamala Sankaram. All Rights Reserved.
Program Note Copyright ©2021 Kamala Sankaram. All Rights Reserved
Published by Just a Theory Press | www.justatheorypress.com
In my field, there is only truth–in life, in death, in pain.
In my field I am true to my patients. I tell them what I know. I tell them I believe in them They believe in me.
In my field I am true to my patients, Except for that time I dressed as Zorro. That time I dressed as Zorro to make them smile. A pretty cape, hat, shirt, and mask. I was wearing fancy clothes, speaking fancy words They forgot where they were and asked me for my autograph.
That day I was a doctor no more.
I was a friend.
A friend and a Zorro. I was a friend and Zorro.
Movies may be bright and synthetic. Technicolor dreams may fade, exposed to reality.
But I have come to believe saving life is a kind of art.
Text by
Melisa Tien
A Friend and a Zorro
(based on an interview with Dr. R. Sankaram)
Music by Kamala Sankaram
costumes, - andscripts. How couldtheybe soarti -
- cial? - Was thiswhatIonce be-
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A Friend and a Zorro JAT-138-005-SP
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