"... more than once he gave serious thought to deserting, living like a tramp in Normandy, finding a cave, feeding himself on the charitable offerings of peasants or small thefts that no one would report. I would learn to see in the dark, he thought. In time my clothes would fall to rags and finally I would live naked. I would never return to Germany. One day I would drown, radiant with joy."- Roberto Bolaño, 2666
instrumentation: violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
duration: 16'
date: 2008-9
performance history: 5.7.09- Left Coast Chamber
Ensemble, Mill Valley, CA
5.11.09- Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Green Room,
SFWMPAC, San Francisco, CA
score sample
"... a mightily depressing piece of work, yet one that's finely wrought and dangerously fascinating."
- San Francisco Classical Voice