Defixiones • Will And Testament

Issued as a digibook with a 40-page attached booklet which includes a libretto. Track 1-7: Translated from Rising Star, Urmia, 1917, with excerpt from Assyrian Mass in the first mode (Quadmoyo). The U.S. premiere of Defixiones was on November 29, 2001, at Royce Hall, UCLA. All but the following performances were recorded on that evening: "Je Rame" The Metropolitan, Medellin, Colombia, June 2002; "Todesfuge" Arts International, New York City, June 2002; "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" Aula Ma...