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The Neighboring Village

for SATB choir and 2 recorder players
Text by Franz Kafka
SATB choir and 2 recorder players
Product number: ED 30465
Edition: Choral score
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Content

THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGE consists of three-and-a-half settings of a two-sentence short story by Franz Kafka, and a musical enactment of the telescoping of time that the story describes. The first setting is one minute in length. Setting two is twice as long at two minutes. Setting three is twice as long as that at four minutes. Setting four is slower still. It would be eight minutes if allowed to continue at the pace set, but ends mid-sentence, only half-way through the text.

As narrative becomes less taut in each setting, the story’s meaning is expressed more purely through form — the short journey/story becomes, in these settings, increasingly eternal — the destination of the village receding farther and farther into the distance. The final setting is just partial, as at that point we can imagine the process of telescoping continuing into infinity.

In my reading, Kafka seems to offer us two linked perspectives: While we can hope to achieve almost nothing in life (there’s both not enough time and endless digressions to face), in the end everything we could want — perhaps even total abundance, timelessness — lies in the expanding distance between here and the very next village.

– Gregory Spears

More Information

Title:
The Neighboring Village
for SATB choir and 2 recorder players
Text by Franz Kafka
Edition:
Choral score
Level of difficulty:
intermediate
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2024
Duration:
13 ′
World Premiere:
April 20, 2024 · Norfolk, Virginia (USA)
Conductor: Charles Woodward · Virginia Chorale

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by The Virginia Chorale for its 40th Aniversary Season and In Honor of Artistic Director Charles J. Woodward

Technical Details

Media Type:
Sheet music
Product number:
ED 30465
ISMN13:
979-0-60002-581-7
UPC:
842819124634
Delivery rights:
Worldwide

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    Conductor: Charles Woodward
    April 21, 2024 | Norfolk, Virginia (United States of America)
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    Conductor: Charles Woodward
    April 20, 2024 | Norfolk, Virginia (United States of America) — World Premiere
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