Cirrus and Pileus

For anyone who might be interested I've uploaded a new song inspired
by composer Charles Ives, canoe outfitter Sigurd Olson and Dadaist
Michel Duncan Merle :

Daniel Stearns--composer
Ryan Stickney--voice, Jacob Barton and Dan Sedgwick--pianos

http://www.myspace.com/danstearns

CIRRUS AND PILEUS

The sun was trembling on the edge of the ridge
Winter was alive
I watched it sink onto the open lake
silver and green and gold and black
wheeled like a pathless wood

Having lashed some undiscovered shore;
Heaven crashed against the pier
in the gardens of the moon

In this rain of iron
the angles sing,
Of fire of ice of blood
of density and velocity
and shattering and avalanching

-du-du - du -
du
du - du-du - du-
du - du - du.
du - du-du-

In the shallow frozen water
turns a great blue sun,
CIRRUS PILEUS
like the seasons passing one by one
in elliptical orbits around the sun
whistle<--at aphelion-->whistle

Mem'ries are time that you borrow
to spend when you get to tomorrow
here comes the setting sun,
the seasons are passing one by one

Du - du - du - du-du -

Dan,

{you wrote...}
>For anyone who might be interested I've uploaded a new song ...

Lovely. Turns out I got the first listen at MySpace! Beautiful inclusions of multiple styles, love the turnaround on "blue sun", was there a touch of "Caro Mio Ben" in there?

C.I. would be proud, I'm sure.

Cheers,
Jon

thanks jon, i'm very happy with this piece and thankful to Jacob et al
(and i thought the little nods to puccini and pinoccio worked well
too...)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Jon Szanto <jszanto@...> wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> {you wrote...}
> >For anyone who might be interested I've uploaded a new song ...
>
> Lovely. Turns out I got the first listen at MySpace! Beautiful
inclusions of multiple styles, love the turnaround on "blue sun", was
there a touch of "Caro Mio Ben" in there?
>
> C.I. would be proud, I'm sure.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>