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I Will Learn To Love a Person: 1. That Night With The Green Sky

from Christopher Cerrone - The Arching Path (ICR021) by Christopher Cerrone

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I Will Learn To Love A Person is a setting of five poems by the writer Tao Lin, a sort of early poet laureate of Logging On, whose work attests to the banality of overconnectedness. Lin often ponders the contradiction inherent to life in the digital age, how it is possible to feel at once overexposed and unnoticed to the point of vanishing. Like Whitman, Lin’s speaker sings himself—but his “i” is lowercase, flattened by the weight of an overbearing universe.

Cerrone’s setting amplifies the sites at which feeling leaks out of Lin’s guarded prose. In “that night with the green sky,” an unsettled piano and vibraphone dog the soprano’s lament about a failed relationship: “why did you want me gone / that hurts.” Each “that hurts” traces the bitter interval of a minor second, the sonic equivalent of picking at a wound.

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it was snowing and you were kind of beautiful
we were in the city and every time i looked up
someone was leaning out a window, staring at me
i could tell you liked me a lot or maybe even loved me
but you kept walking at this strange speed
you kept going in angles and it confused me
i think maybe you were thinking that you'd make me disappear
by walking at strange speeds and in a strange and curvy way
but how would that cause me to vanish from earth?
and that hurts
why did you want me gone?
that hurts
why?
why?
i don’t know
some things can’t be explained, i guess
the sky, for example, was green that night

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from Christopher Cerrone - The Arching Path (ICR021), released May 21, 2021
Timo Andres, piano
Lindsay Kesselman, soprano
Ian Rosenbaum, percussion
Mingzhe Wang, clarinet

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Christopher Cerrone Brooklyn, New York

Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) has been commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, and the Cincinnati Symphony, among others and his opera Invisible Cities was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He was nominated for 2020 and 2022 Grammy Awards. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. ... more

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