El Polifemo de Oro (four fragments for guitar) by Reginald Smith-Brindle

Here’s a recent performance from my performance in Bozeman, Montana of Reginald Smith-Brindle’s work “El Polifemo de Oro” inspired by Garcia Lorca’s poem.

At the round

crossroads,

six maidens

dance.

Three of flesh,

three of silver.

the dreams of yesterday search for them,

but they are held embraced

by a polyfemus of gold.

The Guitar!

The polyfemus of gold (cyclops of gold) references the guitar with a face of gold and a single eye (the sound hole). Three of flesh and three of silver reference the strings of the guitar….

Scott Kritzer

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