{"id":861,"date":"2015-08-22T08:14:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T12:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=861"},"modified":"2015-08-27T07:49:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T11:49:38","slug":"o-now-the-drenched-land-wakes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/o-now-the-drenched-land-wakes\/","title":{"rendered":"O now the drenched land wakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>O now the drenched land wakes\u00a0(2007)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for\u00a0double choir [4:30]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 60px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchristophertrapani%2Fo-now-the-drenched-land-wakes&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=ff5500\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u201cO now the drenched land wakes\u201d stretches a nine-line poem by Kenneth Patchen over five minutes, with varying levels of \u201czoom\u201d on the simple text. Some words are repeated, turning in circles, or reduced to phonemes, smeared with expressive glissandi, while in other passages straightforward homophonic declamation advances the action.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The piece is scored for double choir, with the second choir often providing a virtuosic counterpoint that shades the long harmonies of the first, for a maximum of textural variety. Composed throughout 2006, with my hometown of New Orleans in the first stages of recovery from its devastating flood, it can also be heard as a stark memorial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u201cO now the drenched land wakes\u201d was commissioned by the Providence Singers with a grant from National Endowment for the Arts and premiered March 4, 2007 in Providence with Andrew Clark conducting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 400px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>O now the drenched land wakes; <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Birds from their sleep call <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Fitfully, and are still.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em> Clouds like milky wounds<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Float across the moon.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 400px;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>O love, none may<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em> Turn away long<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em> From this white grove <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Where all nouns grieve.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">[Kenneth Patchen]<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O now the drenched land wakes\u00a0(2007) for\u00a0double choir [4:30] \u201cO now the drenched land wakes\u201d stretches a nine-line poem by Kenneth Patchen over five minutes, with varying levels of \u201czoom\u201d<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/o-now-the-drenched-land-wakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;O now the drenched land wakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullpostsnoheader.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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