Metaphor
Metaphor sets texts by Blake, Donne, and Whitman, in which arthropods are metaphors for states of the human condition: 'The Fly,' 'The Flea,' and 'A Noiseless Patient Spider.'
Recording
I. The Fly (excerpt)
II. The Flea (complete)
III. The Noiseless, Patient Spider (excerpt)
Score Sample
Press Quote
...a particularly enjoyable work...Caltabiano...creates a modern musical language for chorus, singable yet not predictable...The third piece inhabited the most distinctive harmonic world, resonant but not triadic, with haunting seconds and tritones.
San Francisco Classical Voice