KETAMYTH “do I dare disturb the universe?”
Video excerpts from KETAMYTH originally posted at rubyfulton.wordpress.com
Performed by Rhymes With Opera at Artscape
July 16, 2011, Corpus Christi Church, Baltimore
Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, sopranos
Robert Maril, baritone
George Lam, conductor
Words by Baynard Woods
Music by Ruby Fulton
“Do I dare disturb the universe?
In a minute there’s time for decisions and revisions
Which a minute will reverse
There will be time to murder and create
And time for all the works and days
of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate”
-T.S. Eliot, from Mvt. II
“burning, it’s burning…”
from Mvt. III
“You who declare that beasts sob in their sleep
That the sick despair, that the dead have bad dreams
Try to relate my fall and my sleep”
-Rimbaud, from Mvt IIIb
