Join us for Peter’s 32nd birthday with a livestream concert! Featuring classical music, classic songbook tunes, video game music, and many mooooore! Program will include the world premiere of Crystals (on aloneness) by Brandon Scott Rumsey!
Crystals (on aloneness) was commissioned by Peter Dayton and Douglas Johnson and includes an original text by Geoffrey Nutter, commissioned by Brandon Rumsey in 2017.
Text
There was an adage you told me once.
You were my best friend and beloved, so I listened.
It was a series of words brought together, like friends,
words that in their plainness shined.
And though I don’t remember them,
I recall the despair that your presence
lifted from me with a touch that night, one of many,
when I lie awake, mind grinding away
like a millstone with nothing to grind.
You spoke the words that guided me through
and our eyes grew brilliant, and we walked
on the mossy earth among trees
as if among the gentle dead.
They asked for nothing,
but only seemed to offer what was
one moment under a giant blue sky.