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        • 2(II:pic).2(II:ca).2(II:bcl).2(II:cbn)/2.2(I:pictpt).1.1/timp.2perc(cel)/hp/str
        • 20 min
          • 25th January 2025, Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States of America
          • 26th January 2025, Proctors Main Stage, Schenectady, NY, United States of America
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        Programme Note

        Composer note
        Eye of Mnemosyne is a seven-movement multimedia orchestral work that explores memory as a deity while illuminating the advent and influence of George Eastman's Kodak and its lens of nostalgia. In this narrative, videographer Deborah Johnson and I reimagine George Eastman as a vessel of the Greek Goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne, and focus on the essential role that women — the Kodak Girls — played in Kodak's success in advertising and film processing. Here the Kodak Girls are presented as descendants of Mnemosyne, muses who influenced and inspired how Americans began to arrange, capture, and experience their lives’ recollections using the instrument of the camera and the power of the snapshot.

        — Sarah Kirkland Snider

        Movements
        I.             Mnemonic
        II.            Mori (Memory of the Dead)
        III.           Vivere (Power of the Snapshot)
        IV.           Memento (Defense Against Time)
        V.            Nostos (War Story)
        VI.           Ephemera (Fragmented Memory)
        VII.          Psyche/Epilogue: (Legacy/Spirit)

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