ALONE - Choir & Electric Guitar

Composed for LA Choral Lab, 2023 Performed by LA Choral Lab & Mark Smythe World Premiere performance - APSIS concert, April 2023 APSIS - a meditation on the chromaticism of the cosmos, exploring darkness into light, absence into abundance, and weight into weightlessness. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4powyJ... iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id17193... Lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe: From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not bring My passions from a common spring - From the same source I have not taken My sorrow - I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone - And all I lov’d - I lov’d alone - Then - in my childhood - in the dawn Of a most stormy life - was drawn From ev’ry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still - From the torrent, or the fountain - From the red cliff of the mountain - From the sun that ’round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold - From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by - From the thunder, and the storm - And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view - LA Choral Lab APSIS program: https://www.lachorallab.org/apsis.html