Video Information

• Choir: Neoteric Chamber Choir
• Piece: Forgiveness
• Composer:  Dane A Carten
• Conductor:  Dane A Carten
• Voices:  SSAATTBB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary
• he world premiere of "Forgiveness by Dane A Carten with text by Emanual Wolff.
  
  Recorded at the First United Methodist Church in Tucson, AZ on May 6th, 2023.
  
  Full text:
  
  "Show me eyes like scars
  
  to...  morehe world premiere of "Forgiveness by Dane A Carten with text by Emanual Wolff.
  
  Recorded at the First United Methodist Church in Tucson, AZ on May 6th, 2023.
  
  Full text:
  
  "Show me eyes like scars
  
  to soothe and seethe the thoughts
  
  thrice far and smoothly breathe
  
  calm vision light - ajar and free,
  
  this vision gift that's deep as dust,
  
  and hard as feather leaves;
  
  sweet nectar light of lust and color
  
  brilliance;
  
  this stroke of sight's delivery."​​
  
  ​
  
  Program notes:
  
  As I was searching for text for a new composition in 2019, I stumbled upon a long-time friend’s poetry book and devoured it. Emanual Wolff’s MooNlight HoWling spoke to me in its dark corners, surrealist takes on reality and visceral accounts of battles with mental illness and the struggle of existence therein. Forgiveness especially so; the first stanza of which painted an image of loss, of regret, and of reconciliation. My composition then took on a programmatic aspect – coming off the back of a rather  less