Anything Can Happen

Commission year: 
2012
Grant recipient: 
Back Bay Chorale

Boston, MA

A collaboration with poet Seamus Heaney featuring three poems by Heaney interspersed with Arabic passages that include apocalyptic excerpts from the Injeel, the Arabic Christian bible. The final movement is a setting of Heaney’s poem “Anything Can Happen,” written in response to the events of September 11, 2001 and drawing on the writings of the Roman poet Horace. The work features baritone and viola soloists.

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Premiere date: 
Sunday, March 17, 2013