Scenes from the Life of Boullee, Book 1

ENS.2009.4 | 18′
Poem by John Yau
Soprano & Electric Organ

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Scenes from the Life of Boullée, Book 1 sets the first four parts of John Yau’s poem about the visionary eighteenth-century French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée for soprano and electric organ. Each of the songs explores the idea of a drone—sometimes as a single continuous presence, sometimes broken up into pulsations, sometimes shifting, but always present.