Sankaram | Spell to Turn the World Around

Spell to Turn the World Around PERUSALSCORE

Music by Kamala Sankaram Poem by Kathryn Smith 2022

for baritone and piano

PERUSALSCORE

Spell to Turn the World Around

for baritone and piano

PERUSALSCORE

Music by Kamala Sankaram

Poem by Kathryn Smith 2022

= pluck string inside piano

= lightly mute strings inside piano with left hand

Spell to Turn the World Around by Kathryn

Smith

Begin each day collecting birds battered in the night by creatures bent on malice. Give thanks for dew and viscera's bright litter, leaves brought down by drought and feathers damp with blood. When you say you love fall, be sure you know it's death's season. Take shallow breaths, reminding you of summer's smoke, a wildfre bruise that locked us all inside.

Cling to warm October afternoons as vow to live a waterless winter. Drive cross-state to the frefghter's grave and read the poem he memorized at 17, three years before fames overtook the vehicle he rode in, trying to reach disaster.

Kathryn Smith, “Spell to Turn the World Around” from Self-Portrait with Cephalopod. Copyright © 2021 by Kathryn Smith. Used with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Milkweed Editions, milkweed.org. All rights Reserved Worldwide.

Instrumentation

Baritone Piano

PERUSALSCORE

Duration: 7'

First printing, March 2024

Spell to Turn the World Around

Pedal freely except where indicated.

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PERUSALSCORE

Sankaram: Spell to Turn the World Around JAT-138-051-SP

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