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Todd Harper: Questions

Todd Harper: Questions

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DATE : Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:00:45 +0000
Entered in Database : 2006-09-20 22:00:45
length : 6221143
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Perhaps it would have been better if I’d just admitted to myself (and the world) that I’d be taking the summer off from In the Hands. But where’s the fun without the suspense?

Here’s what I currently have in the pipeline (not necessarily in this order):

• Some newly composed pieces of my own.
• A new recording of at least some part of The Broken Mirror of Memory, my cello work.
• A fine new recording from Don Betts.
• The remaining remasterings of my older recordings.

First, however, is the last of the three songs by Todd that Kim and I recorded last spring. This one is a setting of a poem by local poet John Minczeski, Questions, which sits somewhere between Zen koan and children’s book. It is a single poem, but Todd has split it into four separate little songs, zooming in on each each question and giving it its own character. I think they’re quite marvelous. It’s a wonderful way to read a poem — as the Internet makes us more accustomed to reading text fast, the music makes it possible to slow down and give each line of the poem its own space and weight.

Todd Harper, music
John Minczeski, words
Questions
Kim Sueoka, soprano
Paul Cantrell, piano

Listen (2:19 / 2.9 M)

This is the last of Todd’s songs Kim and I have recorded together; it’s back to solo piano in the next episode. Be sure to also check out Northwoods Police Report and First Autumn Night if you haven’t already!

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