Patrick Castillo
The Quality of Mercy

This is the hour of lead (21.12)
1	I.	After great pain, a formal feeling comes (9.27)
2	II.	Interlude (I) (1.06)
3	III.	Vocalise (2.10)
4	IV.	Interlude (II) (2.22)
5	V.	Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (6.10)

Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Jill Heinke, flutes; Kristin Lee, violin; Karen Kim, violin/viola; Jessica Meyer, viola; Hiro Matsuo, cello; Lucille Chung, piano; Ian David Rosenbaum, percussion


6	Cirque (4.21)

Karen Kim, violin


The Quality of Mercy (26.15)
7	I.	Introit (4.56)
8	II.	Kyrie [as the gentle rain (I)] (2.33)
9	III.	What (2.06)
10	IV.	Interlude [voiceprint] (2.02)
11	V.	it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown (3.50)
12	VI.	Anthem [anathema] (5.23)
13	VII.	as the gentle rain (II) (3.48)
14	VIII.	Coda (1.40)

Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Jill Heinke, flutes; Moran Katz, clarinets; Karen Kim, violin; Hiro Matsuo, cello; Ian David Rosenbaum, percussion; Patrick Castillo, electronics


Recorded March 29Ð30, 2014, at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, NY (www.oktavenaudio.com).
Engineer: Ryan Streber

This is the hour of lead

I. 372 (341)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes Ð
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs Ð
The stiff Heart questions, Òwas it He, that bore,
And ÒYesterday, or Centuries beforeÓ?

The Feet, mechanical, go round Ð
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought Ð
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone Ð

This is the Hour of Lead Ð
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow Ð
First Ð Chill Ð then Stupor Ð then the letting go Ð

ÑEmily Dickinson

Poem by Emily Dickinson used by arrangement with the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Ralph W. Franklin ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.


V. Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavensÕ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

ÑWilliam Butler Yeats


The Quality of Mercy

III. What
What shall I call you? By what name shall I call you? O my resemblance?

PATRICK CASTILLO leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been presented at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally, including Spoleto Festival USA, June in Buffalo, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, the Queens New Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Tenri Cultural Institute, Bavarian Academy of Music (Munich), the Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Havana Contemporary Music Festival.

Recent season highlights include the world premieres of Dreamers often lie for violin and spoken word, Music for the Third Place for violin and electronics, The Conversation of Prayers for soprano and ensemble, and Oxford Alley for chamber orchestra; the German premiere of Cirque for solo violin; and the third New York performance of This is the hour of lead, a chamber cantata for mezzo-soprano and ensemble; as well as premiere performances of Patrick CastilloÕs chamber works by Anti-Social Music, Ensemble 61, Forecast Music, the Interlochen Chamber Players, the Society for New Music, the Pharos Music Project, and others.

Patrick Castillo is variously active as an explicator of music to a wide range of listeners. He has provided program and liner notes for numerous concert series and recording companies: most prolifically for Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley for which he served as Artistic Administrator for more than ten years. In this latter capacity, he has led a variety of pre-concert discussion events; designed outreach presentations for middle and high school students; and authored, narrated, and produced the widely acclaimed AudioNotes series of listenerÕs guides to the chamber music literature. Patrick Castillo has been a guest lecturer at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, for whose Late Night Rose series he serves as host; Fordham University; the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass (Kentucky); String Theory at the Hunter (Chattanooga, TN); and ChamberFest Cleveland. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Senior Director of Artistic Planning of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Patrick Castillo holds degrees in music and sociology from Vassar College, where his teachers included Lois V Vierk, Annea Lockwood, and Richard Wilson. He has also participated in master classes with John Harbison, Alvin Lucier, Roger Reynolds, and Charles Wuorinen. While at Vassar, Patrick Castillo served as composer-in-residence for the Mahagonny Ensemble, a collective of performers specializing in twentieth-century music. His Requiem aeternam for mixed chorus and chamber ensemble, composed for the Mahagonny, was awarded the 2001 Jean Slater Edson Prize. He has also been the recipient of the Brian M. Israel Prize, awarded by the Society for New Music for his chamber work Lola.

For more information, please visit www.patrickcastillo.com.


THANK YOU Meredith Alden, James Berdahl, Paolo Bordignon, Emmanuel & Ida Castillo, Joe Castillo, Marlou & Leah Castillo, Phillip Cheah, Gloria Chien, Lucille Chung, Tristan Cook, Jessica Etten, Alma & Cezar Francisco, Jennifer Frautschi, Lindsey Hansen, Linda Lovas Hoeschler, Jennifer Howard, Jung & Yung Kim, Robert Kim & Julie Teal, Roger Knopf & Christine Hanson, Chloe Kramer, Mihai Marica, Zac Nicholson, John Nuechterlein, Annie Rohan, Trine Sorensen & Michael Jacobson, Carlos Tome, and Daphne Wong.

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Photographs (c) John Rose 2015 (instagram: mrjohnrose01)

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Operations Director: Chris Campbell
Publicist: Steve McPherson

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