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2024-04-28
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Cortez Rivers Wallet Leal Tynan
This week our video will feature two selections from composer Ethan Wickman's "Ballads of the Borderland", Elegy and Metallurgist's Scherzo. The larger work, "Ballads of the Borderland" originally premiered on February 27, 2017, at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, in San Antonio, TX. The cantata "Ballads of the Borderland" anthologizes a series of cultural perspectives of life set in the greater Texas borderland region. Compiling text in the form of poems by San Antonio poets John Phillip Santos and Carmen Tafolla, archived oral history, and interviews with multigenerational residents of the region, the work narrates a cultural history that is at once panoramic and intimate. Four poems by Santos provide structural pillars of the entire work—laying a spiritual and metaphysical thread that follows a migratory path from Cortez until the present day. These pieces offer a bird’s-eye view of a sweeping, ontological narrative of a people native to the region as they make their way across generations, traversing deserts, mountains, and rivers. The remaining pieces provide intimate vignettes of life lived in the region. These select few poems, oral histories, family accounts, and the like contextualize the broader narrative depicted in the Santos pieces. These portraits depict childhood memories with a migrant-laborer father, a ghost story, a family tragedy, a master jeweler, and metallurgist whose work finds resonance in the soul of the wearer. Through the stories, a curtain is pulled back and something deeper is disclosed. “(A West Side) Elegy,” recounts childhood memories that include spiritual encounters and the tragic death of a loved one. “Metallurgist's Scherzo" is a lively, ebullient scherzo inspired by San Antonio master jeweler and metallurgist Alejandro Sifuentes. Hear in the shifting meters and surface rhythms a depiction of shifting light as it refracts an array of colors from its many angles. (A West Side) Elegy Those were the happiest days when all we ate was rice and beans. Those were the happiest days, when in the winter, after school, the windows steamed, and there were homemade tortillas waiting for you. The happiest days. In those days, we called our house “dark shadow. ” Every night when I went to bed, I slept with the covers over my head. The creaking door, the white hand, see-through white; the milkman in the sandbox with his long and vacant gaze, standing in the spirit, stone-faced. On the day that Michael died, he dressed in black. Michael, my brother, fifteen years old, dressed in black. They attacked him at the lake, defending his girlfriend. On the day he died, we waited all night. In the morning daddy left for the lake. “I’ll go with you, daddy.” We saw his wallet and his blood. The divers pulled him out. Dressed in black. Michael, my brother. In life you do your best; a handshake is enough; your word is your word. In life, we go through trials and tribulations. I would choose my life again. —Elizabeth Leal (adapted by Ethan Wickman) WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK The Area Foundation Tynan Davis Children's Chorus of San Antonio San Antonio Chamber Choir St. Mark's Episcopal Church and everyone who made this incredible piece possible.
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