Stephen Halloran - The Galilee Hitch-Hiker - Part 1/9 (1998)

Stephen Halloran, composer
Jennifer Elowsky-Fox, piano

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Nine Pieces for Piano
Part 1: The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (see below)
Part 2: The American Hotel
Part 3: 1939
Part 4: The Flowerburgers
Part 5: The Hour of Eternity
Part 6: Salvador Dali
Part 7: A Baseball Game
Part 8: Insane Asylum
Part 9: My Insect Funeral
These piano pieces were composed after the poems of Richard Brautigan. This set of poems, The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, is contained in a still larger work, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. The piano pieces are intended to be performed as a set, with or without narration - between each work or at the onset. The work was commissioned by Jennifer Elowsky-Fox and was released on a compact disk entitled, Pictures and Images released by ShaderGator Records at www.madeintheshade.com

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Part 1

Baudelaire was
driving a Model A
across Galilee.
He picked up a
hitch-hiker named
Jesus who had
been standing among
a school of fish,
feeding them
pieces of bread.
"Where are you
going?" asked
Jesus, getting
into the front
seat.
"Anywhere, anywhere
out of this world!"
shouted
Baudelaire.
"I'll go with you
as far as
Golgotha,"
said Jesus.
"I have a
concession
at the carnival
there, and I
must not be
late."

Copyright 1998 by Stephen Halloran.com

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Music

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• car
• cars
• plenty of fish

[PatMcHugh]

I was surprised to find something so wonderful as music inspired by Richard Brautigan's poetry, but was doubly surprised to find how delightful the music is! Well done!