Video Information

• Choir: Volti
• Piece: Delusional Paths
• Composer:  Tom Flaherty
• Conductor:  Robert Geary
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical, Contemporary
• Volti, Robert Geary, conductor. 5/6/12 performance
  VOLTI:
  SOPRANO
  Yuhi Aizawa Combatti
  Lindsey McLennan
  Diana Pray
  TJ Togasaki
  Christa Tumlinson
  
  ALTO
  Marjorie Gömez
  Verah Graham...  moreVolti, Robert Geary, conductor. 5/6/12 performance
  VOLTI:
  SOPRANO
  Yuhi Aizawa Combatti
  Lindsey McLennan
  Diana Pray
  TJ Togasaki
  Christa Tumlinson
  
  ALTO
  Marjorie Gömez
  Verah Graham
  Emily Ryan
  Celeste Winant
  Jessica Winn
  
  TENOR
  Artyom Chelbayev
  Michael Eisenberg
  Paul Ingraham
  Roderick Lowe
  Eric Tuan
  
  BASS
  Jeff Bennett
  Sidney Chen
  E.E. "Chip Grant IV
  Philip Saunders
  Cole Thomason-Redus
  
  Artistic Director: Robert Geeary
  Executive Director: Barbara Heroux
  Composer in Residence: Mark Winges
  Artistic Advisor: Sidney Chen
  Delusional Paths is a setting of five Stephen Crane poems concerned with paths and destinations. Here paths taken lead to unexpected places. Carefully considered goals prove to be illusive, unattainable, or not what they seemed.
  
  Expectations of preconceived outcomes prove futile ("I saw a man"), naively optimistic ("A learned man"), foolhardy ("There was set before me a mighty hill"), or at best unrealistic ("The wayfarer"). In "Once, I knew a fine song" the path is narrative rather than literal; it starts out telling a story with some clarity, and then morphs into the chaos of a dissolving dream. Crane addresses our common delusions with the warmth of shared experience and with humor. I have tried to capture his tone in these settings.
  
  "Delusional Paths" was written for Robert Geary and Volti.
  Stephen Crane Poems:
  
  I.
  I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
  Round and round they sped.
  I was disturbed at this;
  I accosted the man.
  "It is futile," I said,
  "You can never -- "
  
  "You lie," he cried,
  And ran on.
  
  
  II.
  A learned man came to me once.
  He said, "I know the way, -- come."
  And I was overjoyed at this.
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