ERIC HESSEL

Nonet for Strings, "though night is uncreated" (2015)

Four violins, two violas, two cellos, bass. 15'30''.

With text by the composer:​

​Though night is uncreated

   She falls,she takes
   All such was and will be

In slumber never resting,

   In shadow never cast,

   Viscous against the light

Yet unbidden, unmeasured,

   She untells the silence
   Of an introspective war 

Performance History:

• ​currently unperformed.