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Open Veins

by Robert Moran

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Open Veins 15:09
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I can go? I can go to my father? And I’ll keep this ring on. I’ll promise I’ll come back. This ring...this mirror.... and this rose I’ll plant. I’ll plant it in my garden. I’ll come back. I’ll go to my father and plant this rose And I’ll never take this ring off. I’ll come back. I promise.
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Look into my eyes. See what you are. See what I see. Look into my eyes now. Let me look into yours. It’s time to leave your prison. It’s time that you go free. Look into my eyes. See yourself in me and forgive me. Let me love you. Let me take your place. Let me free you. Look Love. Let me end with you.
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Robert Moran’s music is easy to like and easier to mislabel. Philip Glass is not just “Moran Light.” Moran’s minimalist tonal tendencies mask a sharp social critique and, like the composer himself, perhaps, are supremely seductive, even “disgracefully pretty.”

Beneath the surface, however, you will find the pathos of a mad king, Petronius’s vengeful suicide, an offering to gay film maker Derek Jarman dying of complications of AIDS, and love songs of Beauty and the Beast. These works show a variety of compositional methods, from through-composed works to I Ching-determined modules for performance improvisation, operatic scenes to dance and choral works. They also represent two kinds of energy: the dynamic, driving force behind Open Veins and 32 Cryptograms, as well as the tragical elegiac writing of Desert of Roses and Stimmen. The program as a whole seems to cover the entire gamut from beast to beauty.

WARNING: your heart may be ripped out and your tears jerked when listening to this music. Optional Kleenex® not supplied.

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released June 2, 2021

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Robert Moran Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Robert Moran has traveled many musical paths since 1957 when he began his study of 12-tone music in Vienna with Hans Erich Apostel. He has composed for solo instruments and intimate chamber groups; he has created musical compositions incorporating 100,000 performers, radio and television stations, skyscrapers, and airplanes; and he has collaborated with Phillip Glass to compose opera scores. ... more

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