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        • David Longstreth

        • Song of the Earth (version for orchestra) (2025)

        • Embassy Music Corp (World)

        arr. William Brittelle

        • malevoc,3voc; 3(III:pic,afl,bfl).3(III:ca).3(III:bcl).3(III:cbn)/4.3.2+btbn.0/timp.3perc/pf.hp/str; on-stage musicians (Bar(gtr); tsx/dmkit/hpd(eorg))
        • Bar
        • Male Voice, 3 Backup Voice
        • 1 hr 4 min

        Programme Note

        Song of the Earth grew out of an engagement with Gustav Mahler’s 1908 orchestral song cycle, Das Lied Von Der Erde (The Song of the Earth). Where Mahler’s union of symphonic and song forms was a meditation — by turns joyous, angst-ridden and wistful — on the cyclical character of life and death, nature and the transience of all things, Longstreth explores these themes through the lens of the Anthropocene.

        Movements
        1. Summer Light
        2. Gimme Bread
        3. At Home
        4. Circled in Purple
        5. Our Green Garden
        6. I Walk the Edge
        7. Opposable Thumb
        8. More Mania
        9. Spiderweb at Water's Edge
        10. Mallet Hocket
        11. So Blue the Lake
        12. Dancing on Our Eyelids
        13. Same River Twice
        14. Armfuls of Flowers
        15. Twin Aspens
        16. Uninhabitable Earth
        17. Kyrie / About My Day
        18. Shifting Shalestones
        19. Appetite
        20. Bank On
        21. Paper Birches, Whole Scroll
        22. Raven Ascends
        23. Blue of Dreaming
        24. Raised Brow

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