Composers Series
CURTIS CURTIS­SMITH
Commissioned by
the Guitar Foundation of America for the
2014 International Concert Artist Competition
Evocation
after ‘Gold Are My Flowers’
Edited by
JORGE CABALLERO
Michael Lorimer ‚ New York
© 2014 by Adela Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.
Michael Lorimer, 175 West 73rd Street (10G), New York NY 10023. www.MichaelLorimer.com
Evocation is a five-minute fantasy on one of
the great twentieth-century chamber works with
guitar, C. Curtis-Smith’s Gold Are My Flowers, a
forty-four-minute cantata for soprano, baritone,
and nine instruments. Gold was written in 1992 to
commemorate the quincentennial of Columbus’s
1492 encounter with the New World.
Evocation begins with the chime-like sonorities of guitar harmonics intoning the Navajo chant
which ends Curtis-Smith’s cantata. The Navajo
chant has an ecstatic, Genesis-like text:
In all directions there is light.
In all directions is beauty.
May it be beautiful before me.
It is beautiful.
Smell the flowers.
Hear the singing.
It is beautiful.
In beauty it is finished.
This brief opening in Evocation quickly segues
into a recitative-like march, a souvenir of the cantata’s setting of Columbus’s words: “At dawn we
saw naked people. I called them, I unfurled the
royal banner, I ordered the captain of the Pinta and
Niña to bear witness that I was taking possession
of this island for the King and Queen. To this
island I gave the name San Salvador. Having taken
one island into possession, you can claim them all.
Yes! You can claim them all!”
As Evocation ends, the melody of the Navajo
chant reappears.
Michael Lorimer
Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America
for the 2014 International Concert Artist Competition
Edited by
Jorge Caballero
Evocation
Curtis Curtis-Smith
after ’Gold Are My Flowers’
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© 2014 Adela Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.
Michael Lorimer, 175 West 73rd Street (10G), New York NY 10023. www.MichaelLorimer.com
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