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please continue 

Nick Bentz · please continue (2020)
for soprano, double bass, and electronics
Commissioned by LIGAMENT Duo
Premiere: LIGAMENT Duo
May 6, 2022 - Scholes Street Studio - Brooklyn, NY
​Duration: 16'
please continue​ juxtaposes the literature of psychedelic trip reports against the political treatment of those same substances by the American government. All electronics used in the interludes/postlude are derived and appropriated from presidential speeches from the Nixon administration to October 2020. 

PERFORMANCE HISTORY
  • March 9, 2023 - LIGAMENT Duo - Voxman Recital Hall, University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
  • March 7, 2023 - LIGAMENT Duo - James Theater - Iowa City, IA
  • February 16, 2023 - LIGAMENT Duo - Bowerbird - Philadelphia, PA
  • October 15, 2022 - LIGAMENT Duo - Leah M. Smith Hall, District New Music 22 - College Park, MD
  • May 6, 2022 - LIGAMENT Duo - Scholes Street Studio - Brooklyn, NY
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