Thirteen Ways of Hearing a Blackbird
For soprano voice/flute, soprano saxophone/baritone saxophone, piano, and percussion
Performed by Alice Tessier, Ryan Muncy, Jacob Greenberg, and Nathan Davis (International Contemporary Ensemble)
July 2017, Dublin, NH
Text:
excerpts from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
by Wallace Stevens
I.
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
V.
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.