Two Etched Marks
Sonnet 83 / Sketch (Austin Alexis)



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Sonnet 83 / Sketch (Austin Alexis)
performed by Katherine Crawford
The inspiration for these miniature pieces came from Twitter and its 140 character format. Each movement is composed using text from tweets posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010, that included the word “goodmorning”. These songs are simple and to-the-point, almost incomplete in their brevity, very much in the spirit of Twitter.
Stanzas is third set of songs I composed for voice while studying music. These use texts from Gertrude Stein's Stanzas in Meditation.
In Spring is a song cycle composed on texts by Emily Dickinson. These are the original notes: