Christopher Cerrone

Requiem for K.V.

Requiem for K.V. was composed in September 2007 and was very much inspired by my now fifteen-year-long relationship with the author of the text, as well as Daisy Press’s uncanny ability to make sonic landscapes out of a single voice. The recording here was made by soprano Christiana Little at Yale University’s Center for Studies in Music Technology. Text When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here. – Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) from A Man Without a Country

Soloists: Christiana Little, voice

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