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Synopsis #10: I Know This Room So Well (2008, arr. for horn 2020)

from Blueprints I by Lisa Bielawa

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Michael Atkinson, horn

originally composed for Jennifer Slowik, solo English horn

While working on this synopsis, I found myself looking back to an opera I never finished around 15 years ago. I was working with the gifted playwright Erik Ehn, and we completed a lyrical aria for our eponymous heroine Vireo, a 14-year-old girl visionary whose adolescence spans several centuries. She eventually gets thrown in jail as a witch, where she sings an aria about how happy and comfortable she is there. Erik gives her these words: “If in the dark a chair has moved, I can move around it. I know the room so well.” In this little English horn piece I dip back into that aria, and into those feelings of comfort and familiarity we all have in our various jails, virtual and real.

- Lisa Bielawa

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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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