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Commissioned by the h2 saxophone quartet for the 2014 World Saxophone Congress, and recorded on their 2016 CD "Enrapture," The Kansas Rapture is a virtuosic, intricate work exploring the swift depopulation of the Great Plains. In four contiguous movements, the piece portrarys the tallgrass as a crowd of cantors, the seasonal rivers as a rising and falling tide of green, and the bison of high plains as a circle of sufis chanting the names of God together. In the climactic final movement, Wichita Vortex Sutra, Allen Ginsberg speaks apocalyptic poetry into a dictaphone in the back of a Greyhound bus somewhere near El Dorado, Kansas, and the plains begin to unbreak.

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