Missing Voices
(Richard Leach)
Year: 2020
Instrumentation: soprano & cello
Duration: 6 minutes
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Program Notes
Stunned by the NY Times front page listing of the dead, I wanted to do something. Reaching out to the poet Richard Leach, with whom I had collaborated previously, he promptly sent me Missing Voices, which I set to music the following day. Somehow, a duet between voice and cello seemed right for his moving words. These are not statistics but individual humans with all of their connected friends and family – and this must be acknowledged, even as we struggle to fathom the depth of such loss.
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