Maku
2019
Performance forces:
sop — fl, cl, pno, vl, vc, audio playback
Length:
0:08
Languages:
English
Notes:
Maku is inspired by excerpts from the Báb’s letter to Muhammad Shah, the king of Iran (1808-1848) while he was imprisoned in Maku for 9 months in 1847. Maku is a personal reflection on how human beings respond to physical and spiritual suffering and pain. What was fascinating and resonated with me while composing was to understand that when we reach our threshold or the point that we think we can’t to take it any more, we tend to turn to spirituality and find comfort.