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Je Beal
The Salvage Men for SATB chorus
text by
Kay Ryan Oscar Wilde
Comissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale & The Eric Whitacre Singers 2014
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Notes Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labour at Reading Gaol prison in London, after he was prosecuted and convicted for his love affair with another man. This imprisonment had a devastating effect on Wilde's health and spirit. Wilde died in Paris soon after his release from prison, at the age of 46. De Profundus (from the depths) is the poignant letter Wilde wrote from prison, reflecting on the horrors of imprisonment, the nature of human suffering and our chosen response. Wilde's choice was to write. I was first exposed to this deeply moving letter in 2007, while scoring the documentary Wilde Salome for director Al Pacino. Several scenes in the film featured his reading from De Profundis and portrayal of Wilde's arrest and last days in Paris. At the very same time we were working on this project, I found myself in the midst of an unexpected health crisis, which eventually lead to a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Wilde's De Profundus came at the beginning of a journey in learning how to live gracefully with an uninvited guest. Thankfully, my disease remains mostly in remission, but I deal with neuropathic pain and other issues that those living with a chronic illness intimately understand. Music is more than a vocation, it is an integral part of my daily life, as composing, listening to and performing music lessens pain and energizes me. The lyrical beauty of De Profundus gave me the original impetus for a choral work. His words provided an entry point into this meditation on suffering and catharsis. However, it was in the poetry of Kay Ryan I found a wholly fresh, contemporary view on the themes of transformation and our chosen response to pain. Ryan's writing style is very different from Wilde's. She does not use the personal voice, and avoids confession. Her poetry has a circular quality to it. A revelatory line at the end of Ryan's poetry often invites the listener to reflect back to the beginning, once a poem is finished. Ryan often will recite her brief poems twice in readings, to allow listeners this understanding. I find her poetry to have a deeply musical quality, not unlike the da capo aria. I began working on the choral settings while visiting Paris during the spring of 2014. Aimlessly wandering the streets of the Left Bank with my wife, we came across an entry to a building that looked familiar. I soon realized we had stopped in front of L'Hotel--the hotel where Wilde had spent his final days on earth. I had just begun setting Wilde's text to music, and here we were, most unexpectedly, at his doorstep. These patterns in music, poetry and life might be viewed as signposts, encouragements, divine coincidences. It is our choice which makes them so. Jeff Beal
Plaque honoring Oscar Wilde, l'Hotel Paris spring 2014
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1. A VERY LONG MOMENT (Oscar Wilde) Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralyzing immobility of a life every circumstance... after an unchangeable pattern, There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. Where there is sorrow there is holy ground
2. SPIDERWEB Kay Ryan
3. VIRGA Kay Ryan
From other angles the fibers look fragile, but not from the spider’s, always hauling coarse ropes, hitching lines to the best posts possible. It’s heavy work everyplace, fighting sag, winching up give. It isn’t ever delicate to live.
There are bands in the sky where what happens matches prayers. Clouds blacken and inky rain hatches the air like angled writing, the very transcription of a pure command, steady from a steady hand. Drought put to rout, visible a mile above for miles about.
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4. AGE Kay Ryan As some people age they kinden. The apertures of their eyes widen. I do not think they weaken; I think something weak strengthens until they are more and more it, like letting in heaven. But other people are mussels or clams, frightened. Steam or knife blades mean open. They hear heaven, they think boiled or broken.
5. SALVAGE Kay Ryan The wreck is a fact. The worst has happened. The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work. Thanks be to God—again— for extractable elements which are not carriers of pain, for this periodic table at which the self-taught salvagers disassemble the unthinkable to the unthought.
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3. Virga text by KAY RYAN
Soprano
° &
JEFF BEAL
q = 63
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35
4. Age text by KAY RYAN
JEFF BEAL
° 6 Œ™ &8
q.= 68
Soprano
mf
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Ϫ
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6 &8
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eyes
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j œ #œ #œ #œ œ œ ™
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41
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&
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T.
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∑
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mf
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46
47
5. Salvage text by KAY RYAN
Soprano
° 3Ó &4
JEFF BEAL
q =61
‰ #œj #˙ mp
The
Alto
Tenor
Bass
3 &4
∑
3 &4 ‹
∑
pp
mp
mp
T.
B.
¢
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a
j 43 #˙ ™ œ #œ a
pp
fact.
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