calling, crying (2016)

For Mezzo-Soprano and String Quartet
Duration: 7 minutes
First performed by Jennifer Beattie and the Argus Quartet, June 18, 2016

Text by Carl Sandburg (“Lost”):

Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.