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"Doctor​’​s Aria" from Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch​’​s Accuser, Episode 9: Alcatraz (2016, 2019)

from Blueprints I by Lisa Bielawa

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Gregory Purnhagen, baritone

Incorporates audio from live session on Alcatraz Island, June 21, 2016
engineered & edited by Eric Liljestrand
Randall Matamoros, hurdy-gurdy
Members of Cappella SF, Artistic Director, Ragnar Bohlin – Crystal Kim; Gail Nakano; Matthew Peterson; Leandra Ramm; Chung-Wai Soong; Jonathan Thomas

Text by Erik Ehn

lyrics

DOCTOR(S)
Hello my name is -

PRISONERS (simultaneously)
Work, work
We work.
I guess we work
Now

DOCTOR(S)
The ear is always open
Sorting in sleep,
Vulnerable
As saintly empathy
Stop
Me

PRISONERS (simultaneously)
The clop of the hoof
The drop of sweat
Across
The horse’s
Neck
Work

DOCTOR(S)
The ear, always folding open
Falling
Fallen open
I want

PRISONERS (simultaneously)
Turtles of purpose
Disaster, feathers
Fallen blood
Measures marred
By flood.

DOCTOR(S)
I want to hear a voice too.
Following, folding out the trick of you
your ear!
What’s that? Did I -
No
No

PRISONERS (simultaneously)
I guess we work now
The clop of the hoof, the drop of sweat
I guess we work
We work

DOCTOR(S)
If there is a ___
Then there is a ____
By inference
By association
By rights of a secret simile
Let me hear a voice too! Me! Oh, me!

PRISONERS (simultaneously)
I guess we work now
We work
In animal weathers.
Ahhh
Work, we work

DOCTOR(S)
Caroline?
Caroline?
Caroline?

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from Blueprints I, released August 14, 2020

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Lisa Bielawa New York, New York

Lisa Bielawa is a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. Bielawa’s work consistently incorporates community-making, including her made-for-TV-and-online opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser; Broadcast from Home, a large-scale interactive work in response to the coronavirus pandemic crisis; and music for public spaces in NYC, San Francisco, Berlin, Rome, and more. ... more

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