Composer: Tadd Russo
Piece: in a network of lines that intersect (2001)

Notes:

For narrator and chamber orchestra. Written for Jim Lovensheimer who narrated the world premiere, the text is taken from If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino in a translation by William Weaver.

The story: A prominent businessman, obsessed with kaleidoscopes, plots ever-refracting schemes, which ultimately envelop his consciousness.

in a network of lines that intersect