Good afternoon and welcome.
Delighted to see you all.
Pleasure to get an opportunity to work with Gerry
It may be helpful to you to set aside the knowledge
that English is your first language for those of you
who can claim that dubious honor.
And possibly you might want to go one step further, and forget
that you know any English at all for the first few pieces here.
Because this is a little segment from a new work
called "Lauds" which is songs of praise.
And I suppose you could take a little hair of a relationship
to what Gerry just talked about in terms
of being schooled in that Catholic sister tradition.
And it may have a different feeling.
So we'll just leave English behind
and if you'll listen to the sounds of these words
for the purpose of lauds and possibly get
a different feel for it.
Don't worry about what the words sound like.
The first piece.
"Even as one goes away the lift is beautiful and lingers.
Given name mouthed, breathed upon to open,
thus prepares to sing timbrel.
The praise is we do work.
Praise opens out a pray cease and velocity to norm
while shepherds amble home.
One drives back into the parish to co-mingle with, with, with--
limbrisity is whose, this soft song light.
A temblor can be beached once seen.
The indelible commencement trawls for old equipment.
Mainframe has rescinded oligarchic sprawl.
Come to mama pinprick and be shawled.
Days broken into, now the tall due West forth comes.
We're stunners and we're sunned.
Depreciate your betters and then thumb to just before you
get to California where the rubies
and the tincture and the lariat turns synonymous with sponge."