Tawnie Olson
No Capacity to Consent
Year: 2016
Duration (in minutes): 35:00:00
Difficulty: High (professional)
MP3 STREAM: https://soundcloud.com/tawnie-olson/no-capacity-to-consent-excerpt
Description: Chamber oratorio for SSATBarB, percussion, cello, and continuo organ. Sets to music the legal complaint filed by a pregnant woman which recounts how, after being stopped for a minor traffic violation in an American town infamous for police abuse, she was raped by a corrections officer. (Neither the woman nor the officer is named.)
This work was commissioned by Third Practice and New Music USA.