Cosmosis (Overboard) - excerpt

"Cosmosis" by Susan Botti
(this is an excerpt from "Overboard")
for wind ensemble, solo soprano and women's voices
commissioned by a consortium organized by Michael Haithcock, Director of Bands at the University of Michigan and including the additional participants: Baylor University (Kevin Sedatole), Florida State University (Patrick Dunnigan), Michigan State University (John Whitwell), University of Texas-Austin (Jerry Junkin).
The American poet, May Swenson wrote "The Cross Spider" in response to the news of a Skylab experiment in which a student project proposed to see whether a spider could spin a web in space. A common cross spider (araneus diadematus), named Arabella, is mythically portrayed by Swenson. Her shape poem, "Overboard" (a play of gravity) serves as a prelude.
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