Scream Louder
for sinfonietta (2018) | Premiere: Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra
Scream Louder was premiered in the spring of 2018 in Los Angeles by members of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship Program. The work is a response to the following poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova:
Now nobody will start to listen to songs. The foretold days have come. My last song, the world is no longer marvelous, Don’t tear my heart, don’t ring.
Until recently, as a free swallow You completed your morning flight, And now you will become a hungry beggar; Your knocking won’t get through at strangers’ gates.
-1917
Теперь никто не станет слушать песен.
Предсказанные наступили дни.
Моя последняя, мир больше не чудесен,
Не разрывай мне сердца, не звени.
Еще недавно ласточкой свободной
Свершала ты свой утренний полет,
А ныне станешь нищенкой голодной,
Не достучишься у чужих ворот.
-1917