O Vos Omnes
All worksMivos Quartet — State College, PA, 2023
Written for Mivos Quartet during their 2023 Penn State residency. Recorded by Mivos Quartet.
Program Notes
O Vos Omnes explores ego and empathy, featuring quotes from Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories — drawn from the Lamentations text given in full below. With what sorrow do we identify? The work is cast in three movements: I. Is it nothing to you, all who pass by? / II. Look and see, if there be any sorrow like my sorrow / III. What God did to me in his rage.
Lyrics
O Vos Omnes
"Does it mean nothing to you,
all you who pass by?
Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine,
the LORD brought on me when he erupted in fierce anger."
Lamentations 1:12 NLT
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