Name: Walden Songs: from "The Pond in Winter"
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: Thoreau's acknowledgement of our limited awareness of natural laws in "The Pond in Winter" suggested a piano part that is itself a complete process, apart from the vocal line.

Walden Songs: from "The Pond in Winter"

from A Still Subtler Spirit by Monroe Golden

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Thoreau's acknowledgement of our limited awareness of natural laws in "The Pond in Winter" suggested a piano part that is itself a complete process, apart from the vocal line.

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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveller, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.

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from A Still Subtler Spirit, released September 15, 2003
Adam Bowles, piano
Kathryn Venable, mezzo-soprano

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Monroe Golden Alabama

Monroe Golden is a composer from rural Alabama whose works explore microtonal systems, described by critics as “delightfully disorienting,” “lovely, sumptuous, yet arcane,” and “irresistible music, full of wit and beauty.” There are two prior dedicated audio releases of his music: A Still Subtler Spirit (Living Artist Recordings, 2003), and Alabama Places (innova Recordings, 2007). ... more

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Incongruity

Apr 2011
In Pell City

May 2006
Leaven

Feb 2017
A Still Subtler Spirit

Sep 2003
Vestiges

Feb 2016

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