Kidney Heist

Access a perusal excerpt here. For piano, cello, and 2 "anxious whisperers" This zany piece re-tells the fabulously unsubstantiated "kidney heist" urban legend, which I encountered in the book Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Random House, 2008). Although the story of the "kidney heist" sounds serious and ominous, it's totally fabricated. So—this is not a cautionary tale about date rape or other legitimately worrying topics. This is an absurd reflection on the absurdity of urban legends: ideas that are so sticky that they self-propagate, no matter how nutty. 1) WHISPERERS. This piece is meant to be performed with a minimum of two "whisperers," which means people who are whispering into microphones. The audio signal can be enhanced (ad lib) with delay, echo, reverb and other effects so long as the words are intelligible. The mix should be adjusted so that the whispers feel like whispers (to the audience) relative to the acoustic performance by the piano and cello. The whispere