About this cycle
Inspired by a quote in the Baltimore OUTLoud magazine article “The Man Who Buried Them Remembers”, asking intimate questions… is an evening-length triptych of works inspired by artists who suffered with HIV/AIDS during the height of the crisis. The work examines the text of a poet, an author, and anonymous drag queens from Provincetown during the 1980’s.
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, our funeral liturgies end with the chanted, hypnotic phrase “vechnaya pamyat”, memory eternal. It is my hope that by examining the text and work of HervĂ© Guibert, Tim Dlugos, and those who suffered with less notability, and even suffered in silence, that we can continue to normalize the conversation around HIV and those who continue to suffer with it today. -jma
Concert Order
The cycle consists of the following works (in concert order):
- lessons from provincetown
- death will lift me by the hair (after fragments by Tim Dlugos)
- mise-en-croix
Excluding intermission, the cycle lasts approximately 90 minutes. Intermission should be taken after the second work.
Acknowledgements
This large work would not have been possible without the following contributors:
- Jordan Thomas, harpist
- Eric Maul, flute
- Geoffrey Wright, the Computer Music Consort, and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Rental Request
This work is available for rental for concerts in the 2020-2021 season and beyond.