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Rapture and Regret
two songs for soprano, cello and piano (1987)
Premiere
4-9 December 1987
Cunningham Dance Studio, Westbeth, New York, New York
Karen Noteboom, soprano / Robert La Rue, cello / Eric Sawyer, piano
Instrumentation
soprano, cello, piano
Duration
18'
Text
Virginia Woolf, Isak Dinesan

Program Note
I. Rapture (Virginia Woolf, from The Waves )
II. Regret (Isak Dinesan, from Out of Africa)

Originally commissioned by the Bill Douglas Dancers as the ballet score And the Air and premiered under that title at the Merce Cuningham Dance Studio at the Westbeth Center for the Arts, New York, New York, on the evenings of 4-9 December 1987, conducted by the composer. The score was revised, with linking material and music conceived of purely for the dance excised, during the summer of 2005.