at times, there isn’t ground enough (2019)

Duration 6.5'
Instrumentation 2 piano, 2 percussion
Premiered June 2019, Composers’ Conference at Brandeis: Waltham, MA – (members of) Talea Ensemble
Program Note:
”To accept the day. What will come.
To pass through more streets than houses,
more people than streets. To pass through
skin to the other side. While I make
and unmake the day. Your heart
sleeps with me. It wraps me up at night
and the mornings are cold when I get up.
And I'm always asking where you are and why
the streets no longer are rivers. At times
a drop of water falls to the ground
as if it were a tear. At times
there isn't ground enough to soak it up.”
— Rosa Alice Branco