One Art

by Steven Clark

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This music was created for a dance piece by Nawaaz Ahmed. Nawaaz asked me to base the piece and its form on the poem "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop, which is in the villanelle form.

We began by creating the music and the choreography separately. Once the two were combined, Nawaaz made some minor adjustments to the choreography but mostly allows the synchronies and dissonances stand as they came out.

It was performed by ODC/Dance Company in San Francisco.

lyrics

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

- Elizabeth Bishop

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released October 19, 2022
A recording of Elizabeth Bishop reading her own poem aloud.
Electronics by Steven Clark.

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