Steve Peters (19590)
Three Short Stories (1997)
My burning skin to sleep (1997)

Marghreta Cordero, Alicia Ultan, Steve Peters

Spare, undulating music written for choreographer Lane Lucas’s dance/theater work Shelter, which deals with “the concept of metamorphosis, and the way connections between people can bring us to a greater awareness of our place in life.” The gently undulating three-section Three Short Stories and the beautifully insistent My burning skin to sleep form a suite that very successfully stands apart from the theater/dance work for which they were composed. Three violas calmly stroll through their pitches, starting and stopping to form little pieces within pieces, all leading to an alluring voice and gently off-kilter piano music, an evocative extended coda to the string music that preceded it. (16-minute CD single/EP, in digipak)