A Different Infinitenes
2013
Program Note
commissioned by loadbang
for bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, baritone, and playback
Part I
and latitude experienced forever
not composed
years would be days
let months and years
a different infiniteness
dissolve in time
Part II
exhale in years of nows
[The text is a cut-up poem on Emily Dickinson’s “Forever — is Composed of Nows —”]
About Scott Worthington
Scott Worthington is a double bassist and composer based in Los Angeles. Active as a chamber, recording, orchestral, and solo artist, his work as a performer has been called “masterful…