PERUSAL. Libby Larsen. Wolf Song in Los Angeles. on the poetry of Bill Holm KENWOOD EDITIONS

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1 Libby Larsen Wolf Song in Los Angeles Tenor and Piano from Songs from the Intergalactic Nightclub on the oetry of Bill Holm KENWOOD EDITIONS

2 Libby Larsen Wolf Song in Los Angeles from Songs from the Intergalactic Nightclub for Tenor and Piano Commissioned by Sam Houston State University ith funds from a 2017 Enhancement Research Grant aarded to Tony Boutté by SHSU Research Council Premiered Aril 18 th, 2018 by Tony Boutté, tenor and Saule Garcia, iano at the Gaetner Performing Arts acility at Sam Houston State University PROGRAM NOTE Duration: minutes Songs from the Intergalactic Nightclub, is an imagined volume of oular songs from the future Unmoored from the sense of time rogressing in a linear fashion, this is a future nostalgic for set clock-time, extinction lore, anchors and defined exectation Imagine yourself in a nightclub, reminiscent erhas of Star War s Chalmun's Cantina on the lanet Tatooine - outla - in beteen dimensions susended in time imrovised Here are four songs ith ords by three oets, Bob Kaufman s Battle Reort, (ho azz took over the city), Bill Holm s Wolf Song in Los Angeles (ho bones survive) and Scott olin (ho his life dre music through his hands), and Tom McGrath s azz at the Intergalactic Nightclub (ho the end of time is the beginning of time) You here in this nightclub - you don t think about the future you don t think about the ast All you have to do is listen and live in the resent --Libby Larsen Coyright 2017 by Libby Larsen Publishing, Minneaolis, Minnesota, USA All rights reserved Printed in the USA Coying or reroducing this ublication in hole or in art by any means is a violation of the ederal Coyright La or more information about this iece and other music by Libby Larsen visit libbylarsencom

3 Libby Larsen Wolf Song in Los ANgeles for Tenor and Piano Hear it echo don the canyons of Wilshire Boulevard our hundred and four dire olf skulls rinsed out of the La Brea tar its float in a ool of ale yello light The sign says: All different olves Each emty socket a feather narroer, skulls eculiar as fingerrints, ickled in this muck ten thousand years They all look alike to me, the same olf traed in tar, holing the same last song four hundred and four times to make it erfect Listen carefully --Bill Holm, from The Dead Get By With Everything Wolf Song in Los Angeles By Bill Holm, from THE DEAD GET BY WITH EERYTHING, by Bob Kaufman (Minneaolis: Milkeed Editions, 1991) Coyright 1991 by Bill Holm Rerinted ith ermission from Milkeed Editions milkeedorg

4 WOL SONG IN LOS ANGELES BILL HOLM from "The Dead get by ith Everything" LIBBY LARSEN, q = c 88 straight tone stealthy, shado olves on the rol sing trilets - LH entire song, excet here indicated Damer ed ad libitum excet here indicated straight eighths Hear it - echo P - ed - con vib aa - oo - aa - oo - Hear it ech -o don the Coyright 2017 by Libby Larsen Publishing, Minneaolis, Minnesota, USA All rights reserved Printed in the USA Coying or reroducing this ublication in hole or in art by any means is a violation of the ederal Coyright La -

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