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Kamala Sankaram

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Cultivar for SSATTBB Chorus

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2023

Kamala Sankaram

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GENERAL- Vibrato should be kept to a minimum.

BOXED TEXT - Each individual singer should sing this type of text in their own tempo and rhythm.

ALEATORY - Continue boxed musical gesture for the duration of the arrow.

SMALL ARROW - Gradual change over time.

MICROTONAL TRILL

BODY PERCUSSION - Can be assigned as the ensemble sees fit, including the subdivison and assignment of sections of the percussion parts. There should be at least two people on each line of the part at all times.

CHORAL CHANT - Should be as close to speech rhythms as possible, except where indicated.

TEXT

First Seed (Text by Michael Pollan) (Desire- Now came roses that resembled aroused nymphs, tulip petals in the shape of daggers, peonies bearing the scent of women.) In time human desire entered into the natural history of the flower, and the flower did what it has always done: made itself still more beautiful.

Magnolia (Text by Kamala Sankaram) Evamaria was the first woman to bring forth yellow, Cross Yulan and cucumber tree.

Second Seed (Text by Michael Pollan) We gazed even farther into the blossom of a flower and found something more: the crucible of beauty, if not art, and maybe even a glimpse into the meaning of life.

Hatazakura (Text by Roy Lancaster) Petal, sepal, bract, leaf It grew in a garden beside the road, its branches soaring above the boundary wall in a great wave, which in spring carried an abundance of pink single blooms ahead of the coppery emerging leaves. Bold and brazen in the sheer exuberance of its blooming. I enjoyed it then, delighting in its exuberance and charm, and was always sad to see its brief spring beauty fading Come autumn its leaves changed from green to a blaze of bonfire shades that burned ever brightly and then were gone, leaving only the bare branches dark against the sky. Its appearance each springIts leaves staining red the black forest and lighting like flares the gray mist of dawn. Its fragility and brief appearance remind the poets in us: Beauty is fleeting; life should be lived to the full.

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Third Seed (Text by Michael Pollan) Our grammar might teach us to divide the world into active subjects and passive objects, but in a coevolutionary relationship every subject is also an object, every object a subject.

Weeping Beech (Text by Kamala Sankaram) Weeping We tattoo We possess We carve Into the beech, not an inch of bark unspoiled — Jose and Liz. Alhue loves Rina Melissa, J + K, Amalia y Carlos, Tamaka, Dee, Mum, MKA 55, Diego Heaven

Fourth Seed (Text by Michael Pollan) It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins

Dawn Redwood (Text by Kamala Sankaram)

Straight Red Needles like fossils

Like living fossils Forgotten Alone for millions of years

Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) Hidden in Hubei, Shuihsu Valley. Once, the valley was covered with forests, Now, one last stand still standing straight, red, hidden, but alive. Through ice, through war, hidden, but alive. And so we gathered the lentil-sized seeds, The first to grow here for two million years.

Fifth Seed (Text by Michael Pollan)

We are shaping the evolutionary weather in ways Darwin could never have foreseen; indeed, even the weather itself is in some sense an artifact now, its temperatures and storms the reflection of our actions. For a great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. Artificial selection has become a much more important chapter in natural history as it has moved into the space once ruled exclusively by natural selection.

ManGrove (Text by Michael Pollan) That space, which is the one we often call “the wild,” was never quite as innocent of our influence as we like to think…

Partly by default, partly by design, all of nature is now in the process of being domesticated— of coming, or finding itself, under the (somewhat leaky) roof of civilization. Indeed, even the wild now depends on civilization for its survival.

Taking Root (Text by Kamala Sankaram) Desire. Protect the wild spaces. Protect the seas and the forests. Protect the mangrove and the beech.

Michael Pollen text adapted with permission from the Botany of Desire

Roy Lancaster text adapted with permission from the introduction to Japanese Flowering Cherries

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Instrumentation

SSATTBB Ensemble

Duration: 20'

First printing, March 2024

TextbyMichaelPollan

Culvar

forSSATTBVoicesacappella

1.Firstseed

Singtheboxedtextonthegivennoteatyourownpace.Youmaychoosetorepeat thetextexactlyortorepeatonlycertainwords.Tenor1cuestheswitchtothenext measure.Ifthenextmeasurecontainsarest,restartthetextatyournextentrance.

Desire.Nowcamerosesthatresembledarousednymphs,tulippetals intheshapeofdaggers,peoniesbearingthescentofwomen.

MusicbyKamalaSankaram

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intheshapeofdaggers,peoniesbearingthescentofwomen.

Desire.Nowcamerosesthatresembledarousednymphs,tulippetals intheshapeofdaggers,peoniesbearingthescentofwomen.

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ﬂow'r.

made mf itself - stillmorebeauti - -ful. beautiful.

didwhatithasalways - done: made mf itself - stillmorebeauti - -ful. beautiful.

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made mf itself - stillmorebeauti - -ful. beautiful.

2.Magnolia

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B. Snaps Claps

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Eeyeh - eeyeh - Eeyeh - eeyehLoooh - Loooh -

Eeyeh, - eeyeh, - eeyeh - Eeyeh, - eeyeh, - eeyeh -

B. q=80 102

Pe p -tal, sepal, - bract,leaf

Pe p -tal,sepal, - bract,leafPetal, - sepal, - bract,leafPetal, - sepal, - bract,leaf

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which mf inspringcarried - anabund - -ance ofpinksinglewhich mf inspringcarried - anabund - -ance ofpinksingle -

bract,leaf Petal, - sepal, - bract,leafleafofpinksingle -

leafPetal, - sepal, - bract, leaf leafofpinksingle -

B. which mf inspringcarried - anabund - -ance ofpinksingle -

leafPetal, - sepal, - bract, leafPetal, - leafofpinksingle -

bloomsahead - ofthecopper - -y emerg - -ing leaves.

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blooming. - I

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-al, sepal, - bract leaf. Petal, -

Pet p -al, sepal, - bract leaf. Petal, - sepal, - bract leaf. Petal, - sepal, - bract leaf.

briefspringbeauty - fading. - fading. - Fad p -

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pal,springbeauty - fading. - fading. - Fading. - Fading.

Pe p tal, - sepal, - bract,leaf

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bract,leafPetal, - sepal, - bract,leafPetal, - sepal, - bract,leaf

p -tal, sepal, - bract,leaf

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T.2 B.

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Pe p -tal, sepal, - bract,leaf

spring.Pe p tal, - se pal, - its mf leavesstaining - redtheblackforest - and spring.Pe p tal, - se pal, - its mf leavesstaining - redtheblackforest - and

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blackforest -

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pearance - reminds - thepoets - inus.

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Petal, - sepal, - bract, leaf

B. pearance - reminds - thepoets - inus.

Petal, - sepal, - bract, leaf

mp y - isﬂeeting. - Lifeshouldbelivedtothefull.

y - isﬂeeting - Lifeshouldbelivedtothefull.

Lifeshouldbelivedtothefull.

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MusicbyKamalaSankaram

Dadumdadumdadum

dadumdadumdadumDadumdadumdadum

dadumdadumdadumDadumdadumdadum dadumdadumdadum

dadumdadumdadumDadumdadumdadum

- subject - isalso - anobject, - ev'ry - object - asubject. -

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Heep f heep!

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B. Clap1

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Al mf hue - lovesRina. - Di f -e go - Tama - ka -

Al mf hue - lovesRina. - Di f -e go -

Alhue - lovesRina. - Di f -e go -

- ka -

Alhue - lovesRina. - Di f -e go - Tama - ka -

T.2 B. Clap1

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Singtheboxedtextonthegivennoteatyourownpace.Youmaychoosetorepeatthetext exactlyortorepeatonlycertainwords.Movetonextchordaftersopranos'repeat.

Intothebeech,notaninchofbarkunspoiled,JoseandLiz.AlhuelovesRina Melissa,J+K,AmaliayCarlos,Tamaka,Dee,Mum,MKA55,Diego Heaven,Heaven

Singtheboxedtextonthegivennoteatyourownpace.Youmaychoosetorepeatthetext exactlyortorepeatonlycertainwords.Movetonextchordaftersopranos'repeat.

‹ Intothebeech,notaninchofbarkunspoiled,JoseandLiz.AlhuelovesRina Melissa,J+K,AmaliayCarlos,Tamaka,Dee,Mum,MKA55,Diego Heaven,Heaven

Singtheboxedtextonthegivennoteatyourownpace.Youmaychoosetorepeatthetext exactlyortorepeatonlycertainwords.Movetonextchordaftersopranos'repeat.

‹ Intothebeech,notaninchofbarkunspoiled,JoseandLiz.AlhuelovesRina Melissa,J+K,AmaliayCarlos,Tamaka,Dee,Mum,MKA55,Diego Heaven,Heaven

Singtheboxedtextonthegivennoteatyourownpace.Youmaychoosetorepeatthetext exactlyortorepeatonlycertainwords.Movetonextchordaftersopranos'repeat.

Intothebeech,notaninchofbarkunspoiled,JoseandLiz.AlhuelovesRina Melissa,J+K,AmaliayCarlos,Tamaka,Dee,Mum,MKA55,Diego Heaven,Heaven

‹ Intothebeech,notaninchofbarkunspoiled,JoseandLiz.AlhuelovesRina Melissa,J+K,AmaliayCarlos,Tamaka,Dee,Mum,MKA55,Diego Heaven,Heaven

Intothebeech,notaninchofbarkunspoiled,JoseandLiz.AlhuelovesRina Melissa,J+K,AmaliayCarlos,Tamaka,Dee,Mum,MKA55,Diego Heaven,Heaven

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Ithasgrownharder, - inthelastcentur - -y,

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loneformillions - ofyears. Years. Did p -dut Diddut - Diddut -

loneformillions - ofyears. Years. Did p -dutDiddut - Diddut -

loneformillions - ofyears. Years. Did p

loneformillions - ofyears. Years. Years.

loneformillions - ofyears. Years. Years. p

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standing - Straight Red. Hidden, - butalive. - Throughice.

Still mp standing - Straight Red Hidden, - butalive. - Throughice.

Throughwar.Hidden, - butalive. - Hid

Throughwar.Hidden,

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And mp sowegathered - the

And mp sowe gathered -

And mp sowe Ooh lentil - sizedseeds,theﬁrstto growherefortwomillion - years.Andsowe gathered - the

thelentil - sized seeds, theﬁrstto growhere fortwomillionyears.

gathered - thelentil - sizedseeds,theﬁrstto growherefortwomillionlentil - sizedseeds,theﬁrstto growherefortwomillionyears.And

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TextbyMichaelPollan MusicbyKamalaSankaram

We are shaping the evolutionary weather in ways Darwin could never have foreseen;

indeed, even the weather itself is in some sense an artifact now, its

temp'ra - tures - andstorms thereﬂect - ion - ofouractions.

CHORAL

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For a great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get a-

long in a world in which humankind has become the most

powerfulevolutionaryforce.

Artificial selection has become a much more important chapter in natural history as it has moved into the space once ruled exclusively by natural selection.

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-vi-val. For its survi - -val. For its survi - -val.

11.TakingRoot

Dur.Shouldbearound10s

Singtheboxedtextonthegivennoteatyourownpace.Youmaychoosetorepeatthetextexactlyortorepeatonlycertainwords.

Desire.Protectthewildspaces.Protecttheseasandtheforests.Protectthemangroveandthebeech. Attacca

Desire.Protectthewildspaces.Protecttheseasandtheforests.Protectthemangroveandthebeech.

‹ Desire.Protectthewildspaces.Protecttheseasandtheforests.Protectthemangroveandthebeech.

Desire.Protectthewildspaces.Protecttheseasandtheforests.Protectthemangroveandthebeech.