Grounded (2021)
6 minutes
for cello and guitar
Commissioned as part of the MOMENTUM III Sue W COVID-19 Special Commission, 2020, with support from the Australian Music Centre and The Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Premiered by Sharon and Slava Grigoryan (online), March 2021.
Recording released on the album 'Advice to a Girl'. CDs available through Bandcamp.
6 minutes
for cello and guitar
Commissioned as part of the MOMENTUM III Sue W COVID-19 Special Commission, 2020, with support from the Australian Music Centre and The Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Premiered by Sharon and Slava Grigoryan (online), March 2021.
Recording released on the album 'Advice to a Girl'. CDs available through Bandcamp.
A little boy runs through his garden, grinning, calling out his first word - ‘Happy’.
All is right in his world.
Before this time of grounding, our lives bordered on the chaotic.
We squeezed connection into the spaces between our to-do lists.
We worked, travelled, and toured. We strove to keep exploring the elsewhere and the other.
Now we are grounded. The suitcases are unpacked and put away.
We choose to be present physically, emotionally and spiritually.
There is biersweet disappointment for what we have lost, but we are awakened
to what we have gained, and it is beautiful.
We are aligned with our desires, our loved ones, our creative selves.
We are happier in our soul.
‘Grounded’ for Cello and Guitar is a celebration of rediscovering simplicity and home
in the time of Covid.
Infused with joy and a lightness of spirit, it celebrates the rediscovering of ourselves
and the things we hold most precious.
‘Grounded’ is a gift to Slava, Sharon and their little boy Seb,
and for anyone who has unexpectedly regained a part of themselves in these strangest of times.
© Anne Cawrse 2021
All is right in his world.
Before this time of grounding, our lives bordered on the chaotic.
We squeezed connection into the spaces between our to-do lists.
We worked, travelled, and toured. We strove to keep exploring the elsewhere and the other.
Now we are grounded. The suitcases are unpacked and put away.
We choose to be present physically, emotionally and spiritually.
There is biersweet disappointment for what we have lost, but we are awakened
to what we have gained, and it is beautiful.
We are aligned with our desires, our loved ones, our creative selves.
We are happier in our soul.
‘Grounded’ for Cello and Guitar is a celebration of rediscovering simplicity and home
in the time of Covid.
Infused with joy and a lightness of spirit, it celebrates the rediscovering of ourselves
and the things we hold most precious.
‘Grounded’ is a gift to Slava, Sharon and their little boy Seb,
and for anyone who has unexpectedly regained a part of themselves in these strangest of times.
© Anne Cawrse 2021