MOBIA's Third Annual Commission Concert November 3, 2007

Prodigal Songs, a new song cycle commissioned by MOBIA for the female vocal ensemble Trio Eos, recasts the parable as a meditation about waste and bounty, wealth and gratitude. Less a pageant than a tapestry of voices, this gathering of seven lyric poems, with text by poet Tess Taylor and music by composer Robinson McClellan, asks what it means to enjoy the abundance of the world. Using language both contemporary and ancient, the work explores ideas of taking and partaking, sensory pleasure, spiritual fulfillment and the yearning to belong.