Tongues (2001)

soprano/flute/clarinet/guitar/viola/percussion •28 minutes

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Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation for Ensemble Libra

First performance: 14 August 2001, Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia: Deborah Kayser / Ensemble Libra / Mark Knoop

Live performance at Roulette, Brooklyn, 19 May 2015 by soprano Tony Arnold and the International Contemporary Ensemble (Alice Teyssier, flute; Campbell MacDonald, clarinet; Daniel Lippel, guitar; Ross Karre, percussion; Wendy Richman, viola) with David Fulmer, conductor. Presented by Ear Heart Music; video by rKAD.