Mycoidal Phantom Blooming

for double-bell trumpet and horn
written for Marco Blaauw and Christine Chapman
duration: 10 minutes
completed February 2023, Baltimore, MD

premiered Apr 10, 2023, Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD

Note:

Cormac McCarthy in Memoriam.

“In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry a thousand years.”

–Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (2022)