New recording of John Sichel's Paradoxides
/A recording of the song cycle "Paradoxides," by John Sichel '81 is now available for streaming and download on CD Baby, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Spotify etc. The performers are Hans Tashjian, bass-baritone and Anna Keiserman, piano. The recording was made at NV Factory, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, in June 2024.
"Paradoxides" is a 50-minute song cycle based on 9 poems by the Griffin Award-winning Canadian poet Don McKay. The poems deal with birdsong, bugs, geology, deep time, mortality and the artist's complicated relationship with the natural world. Mr. McKay's poems are used by permission of the poet and Penguin Random House, Canada.