Anyone Lived (score & parts) - OB/CL/BSN

Anyone Lived
for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
by Jamie Leigh Sampson (b. 1984) - American composer

Anyone Lived was written in 2017, and is based on E.E. Cummings' poem "anyone lived n a pretty how town". The poem captures an odd angle of two characters, anyone and noone, as they live out their lives, fall i love, and die...just to have "busy folk bur(y) them side by side," while the pace of the poem and the world never slows. Lines that reorder the seasons, the weather, and celestial bodies mark the passage of time, while the organisms that inhabit the Earth whirl and buzz by.
The rapidity of action and irregular rhythmic motives that come from a reading of the poem seemed to match the repertoire of a trio d'anches. Of all the potential wind chamber groups, the wind trio is fairly common, with much of its repertoire being produced in the early 20th century. Witold Lutoslawski, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Adrian Cruft, and Paul Pierne all wrote popular works for this ensemble. 
This piece is dedicated to Sipkje Pesnichak and Andrew Martin of the ADVerb Trio, with whom I've been making music for over half my life.
   --Jamie Leigh Sampson

Duration 8:30