The Endings

Music and text by Jenny Olivia Johnson, performed with video

An abstract piece for ensemble and video that portrays the last hallucination of a dying scholar remembering her first adolescent love.

Jenny Olivia Johnson is currently pursuing a PhD at New York University in composition, theory, and musicology. She recently won an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Leaving Santa Monica, featured in VOX 2006, and completed a composition residency at Bang on a Can's Summer Music Festival.

Conductor: Marc Lowenstein
Lyra: Malia Bendi Merad
Will: Jason Badger
Chorus: Erin Elizabeth Smith
Janara Kellerman
Christopher Jackson
David Salsbery Fry

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VOX 2007

Elmer Gantry
The Rat Land
Elegy for a Prince
Airline Icarus
Río de Sangre
Nannan
The Endings
In the Father’s Garden
Crossing the Horizon
The Fisher King
With Such Friends…
La Machine de l’être