The Other Shore Across

Instrumentation: baritone voice, trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet

Duration: 4 minutes

The Other Shore Across was written in 2023 for loadbang (Andy Kozar, Tyler Bouque, Adrian Sandi, and William Lang) and was premiered as part of Divergent Studio at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA

The text is a mixture of fragments of Dante’s “Inferno” and original writing:

I come to take you to the other shore across

Into eternal darkness, there to dwell

Through me you pass into eternal pain

Here, sighs of lamentations and loud moans resound through the air pierced by no star

Suffer the wretched souls of those who lived without praise or blame

Who for themselves were only

Past pale stone steps I ferry us now as my friends march downwards, glued to their cellphones still

These wretches, their shrieks are heard

These wretches…

If aught they merited, it matters not

I told them not of Elysium

Now not man, man once I was

Take you to the other shore across

Score to View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17wV2TmMeywyJAnt3ggpsgXL2EJv0tkGF/view?usp=drive_link