Program Note

Upon receiving the gift of an apple, I wrote the words and music for the madrigal,An Adamant Apple, to be sung in canon. The work is dedicated to Maxine, the apple’s gifter. One of my great pleasures as a bassoonist in the 1990s was to join the San Francisco Opera’s educational arm, Western Opera Theater, for their annual tours. We covered a great swatch of the United States by bus, and gave this cannon new life on those buses. For a 1988 recording released on the Second Evening Art label (SEA #1977) it was sung by Judith Nelson, Marcia Gronewold, Eric Morris, and Ed Cohen.