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Songs Without Words: Night Watch

from pause and feel and hark by Jeremy Beck

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While there is no direct or literal connection between these poems or the music which reflects them, they are linked by common images, and a story of sorts may be
seen to emerge through the progression of these shared images.

Songs Without Words was composed in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and completed while I was in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York in
May of 1997. Written for Elizabeth Sadilek (flute) and Gretchen Brumwell (harp), it was premiered by them at Iowa State University on 1 February 1998.
The second movement is dedicated to Jane D. Marsching.

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The last movement is entitled Night Watch, after a 1987 poem by Vikram Seth.

Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling
Through the unsettled stillness of the night
He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling
That dawn has come and gone and brought no light.

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from pause and feel and hark, released September 18, 2023
Elizabeth Sadilek, flute
Gretchen Brumwell, harp

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Jeremy Beck Louisville, Kentucky

Jeremy Beck “knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way. … [In] Beck’s forceful and expressive sound world … the writing is concise in structure and generous in tonal language, savouring both the dramatic and the poetic.” (Gramophone Magazine). ... more

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