Program notes

Followed by Another
Infinite Here
Life is So Strange
This Is the Story She Began
while the whole moves
It Was




This Is the Story She Began
 
The title of this piece comes from Book IV of Ovid’s Metamorphosis, subtitled «The Daughters of Minyas,» which leads into the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.  In the prologue, he describes the daughters of Minyas who stay indoors to weave as the Theban women celebrate outside.  One of the women asks to «lighten our useful toil with talk» and the storyteller begins to tell the tale of the star-crossed lovers.  She chose this one for the reason that «this last she liked the best, because the tale was far from widely known, and as she span her wool, this is the story she began.» 
 
I feel my musical process is somewhat similar to the unfolding of a semi-coherent story.  Imagining that memory and detail change with every telling, the gestures of this piece also continually re-shape themselves until they are spun out.