I’m spending some time today working on my next bit of music: Time Sonnets. I’m setting Shakespeare’s twelfth and sixtieth sonnet to music for baritone and piano for good friend and composer Jerry Hui.
As with the work immediately previous to this one, I’m continuing in a vein of so-called “absolute music.” Much of my work prior had somehow been programmatic, inspired by other media, and figuratively painted. So, the music in this case will serve the words and not the other way around.
Allowing a taste of things to come, expect angular baritone lines with minimal piano involvement.