
Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules (1963)

I realized after the fact that all of the titles except for the last movement have to do with time and the speaker’s relationship to time. 1st movement: subjunctive past; 2nd movement: present tense; 4th movement: past perfect; with the interlude referencing both infinite time and the end of time.
(1) What if this happened?
(2) I am now
Interlude: Everything was forever until it was no more
(3) An occupying army
(4) Decades had passed
Everything feels static right now, possibly because this current slow motion car crash leaves us in an endless nervous state that, when it ends, will cease to exist but will never end. My previous works were about a map that can tell the future and a man looking for the missing parts to his time machine, so time seems to be a general theme regardless of what’s happening in the world. Who knew?
Continue reading Symphony No. 1 – Time and textureTrump flip-flops on masks and distancing in the most pandering way possible by restating what every authority was saying months ago when he was actively contradicting them. News outlets shame themselves by suggesting he’s being “presidential” now. Reports reveal Birx is spineless. #ETTD
15 Jul 2020 | Hospitals must bypass the CDC and send data directly to HHS |
16 Jul 2020 | FL closes pandemic response center because it’s a hotbed of infection |
17 Jul 2020 | John Lewis dies |
18 Jul 2020 | Report on Birx yes-manning Trump and abandoning science |
19 Jul 2020 | Kemp tries to silence Keisha Lance Bottoms and she smacks him down |
20 Jul 2020 | |
21 Jul 2020 | |
22 Jul 2020 | Trump “sees the light” and recommends masks |
23 Jul 2020 | CDC reverses it’s recommendation that schools should not open |
“16 Jun 2020”. I wrote that down on the first sheet of staff paper I pulled out to start the project that I’d wanted to do for years: compose a symphony. Last year’s monthly orchestral studies were a means to this end.
Continue reading Symphony No. 1 – The start