for mezzo-soprano, piano, and string quintet
Music and Text by Kamala Sankaram
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Ramonanewyorkamsterdam
for mezzo-soprano, piano, and string quintet
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Music and Text by Kamala Sankaram
Performance Note
Diamond notehead indicates light finger pressure, as if playing a harmonic.
Text
Home
Is it a place?
Is it
A set of narrow stairs
A doorway to a balcony
A window overlooking the dark water
Is it
A window turned into a mirror
An unwound clock on the mantle
Shelves bending under books
Is it
A fig tree
Sea glass
Trilobites
The stone that you found
Cuttings from our grandmother’s garden
Home
Is it a memory?
Was it
The chalkboard movie theater
The pink shag carpet
The blanket you scratched to bits
Instrumentation
Mezzo-Soprano
Piano
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Cello
Was it
The oleander
The white wicker bed frame
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Contrabass
Duration: 6'
First printing, March 2024
Copyright ©2020 Kamala Sankaram. All Rights Reserved.
Program Note Copyright ©2020 Kamala Sankaram. All Rights Reserved
Published by Just a Theory Press | www.justatheorypress.com
The path from the window to the roof
Was it
The red velvet lampshade
The view of the rose window
The three of us for the last time
Before separate homes
Distance,
Absence, Loss
Home
Is it a place
Is it a memory
Will it be
Your silver coffee cup
Your red picture frame Or maybe
That faded Polaroid of three little girls, brown from the sun
ramonanewyorkamsterdam
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