Cello: Coleman Itzkoff
Piano: Audrey Vardanega
Written for Musaics of the Bay's Musical Lore Residency, based on the following story by Austin Tang:
"Green volcanic glass. Brilliant orange lichens. California condors making lazy circles overhead. We paused in a moment of silence for a wayward mole who never made it home. Below the wildflowers blooming in April And above the geologic monoliths soar--the spewed volcanic lava and rock from 23 million years ago their molten and fluid forms still seemingly in motion. Across a crevasse, like a Chinese brush painting sheer rock faces dotted with single gray pines clinging to ledges too narrow to park a bicycle. And in the serrated knife-edge slot r...