The Wandering Bird (El Pajaro Errante)(in Memoriam Mark Walker)
This
setting of the Puerto Rican folk song has an inherent narrative
‘feel’ throughout its basic structure of 29 bars and ranges through
high, middle and low registers. However,
the haunting lamentation of the melody is heightened by the
accompaniment of original invertible counterpoint, which elevates its
innocent simplicity to rarefied spiritual levels. |