for contralto and trombone
on texts by Emily Dickinson
2022 | duration 8′

Written for Fanny Alofs and Sebastiaan Kemner
Commissioned by Silbersee & Lonelinoise for the program Harmony of the Spheres

Live recording from the premiere at November Music 2022: Sebastiaan Kemner, trombone & Fanny Alofs, voice

TEXTS
Fragments of poems by Emily Dickinson (poems 850, 419, A105)

I sing to use the Waiting
My bonnet but to tie
And shut the Door
No more to do have I

And so of larger – Darknesses
Those evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –

You heard no noise
The ruin was within

Performances
12.11.2022 Sebastiaan Kemner & Fanny Alofs, November Music, Den Bosch
03.12.2022 Sebastiaan Kemner & Fanny Alofs, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
28.01.2022 Sebastiaan Kemner & Fanny Alofs, Noorderkerk, Amsterdam