from "The Book of Matthew" - SATB & Organ version

from Sirens for SATB chorus & Organ Approximate Duration: 2:15' Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/interlude-siren-music-interlude/id323320911?i=323322100&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 PROGRAM NOTES     The sirens, those mythical beings of the island of Circe, occupy a unique place in literature. Unlike other temptresses, their lure is art, a song of such overpowering beauty that it draws sailors to a rocky death. In contemplating a large work for Chanticleer, I imagined alluring and haunting music that would fully explore their special gifts.     Perhaps one thinks of lyrical, melodic music coming from sirens, but this cycle casts a wide net in exploring seduction music. For example, the hypnotic and pulsing can also entrance, and this is the music that floats across the ocean to Odysseus in the work’s beginning and end. The shattered Greek words from Book XII of the Odyssey weave an intricate, bewitching mosaic. The rhythms soften in a central, lyrical section marked by meltin