empty rooms
2009
for
"empty rooms" refers to a line at part V of the poem "The waste Land" by T. S. Eliot: T. S. Eliot was the favourite poet of the James Avery. Actually we both togehter planned a large project, in which the poem "The waste Land" should play a major role. Unfortunately James Avery died before the realization and so at the moemnt there only exists these fragment...
small ensemble
...
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped bat he beneficent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms
...
The piece has had it's first performance at the first anniversary of the death of James Avery.
For Jim!