1.Abraxas (12:31)  trailer
2.The Tender Ones (10:29)
3.The 7th Chapter of Job (7:34)
4.Shanti (13:10)
5.The End of Tyranny (5:24)

1. Abraxas  (12:31)  trailer

The ancient Gnostic god Abraxas is found in Hermann Hesse's Demian, a novel probing the concept of self-knowledge. A bird, as soul, fights its way out of its shell and flies to Abraxas; the soul must first destroy a world in order to be born. Demian was written as Hesse underwent psychoanalysis with Carl Jung, who in his Seven Sermons to the Dead describes Abraxas as a god of both light and dark, good and evil.

Robert Garcia , horn; Eric Bates, Anne T. Horvath, violins; Missy Hydock, viola;
Christina Coletta, cello; Chris Lastovicka, piano.

2. The Tender Ones  (10:29)

"The Tender Ones" draws its title from Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, Part 1, No. 4. Where Abraxas seeks a new world, "The Tender Ones" retraces an old one, abandoning independence for the chance of a breathable union with what once was: the interior of the shell, the formation of the fledgling within.

Robert Garcia, horn; Chris Lastovicka, piano.

3. The 7th Chapter of Job  (7:34)

"The 7th Chapter of Job" is music taken directly from Crossing the Horizon, an opera about UFO abduction based on the epic poem by E.M. Lauricella.

Eric Bates, violin; Damon Gray, cello; Kimberly Tobola, soprano; Diana Cataldi, mezzo-soprano;
Laura Backley, contralto; Chris Lastovicka, piano; Cynthia Katsarelis, conductor.

4. Shanti  (13:10)

"Shanti" is the name of Lastovicka's childhood dog, who passed away during the writing of this piece. In Sanskrit, "shanti" means "peace."

Robert Garcia, Kristen Johns, horns; Lara Theilmann-Messerly, Katrin St. Clair, violins; Tom Guth,
Heidi Mausbach, cellos; Chris Lastovicka, piano.

5. The End of Tyranny  (5:24)

The End of Tyranny is based on a poem of the same name by E.M. Lauricella.

Robert Garcia, horn; Eric Bates, violin; Kenneth Woods, cello; Chris Lastovicka, piano;
Kimberly Tobola, soprano.