Charybdis for contrabass (or bass) clarinet and string trio SCORE PDF
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Charybdis
for contrabass clarinet and string trio
Duration: 5' - 6'
Composed by Goi Ywei Chern in 2024
"The other crag is lower - you will see, Odysseus -
though both lie side-by-side, an arrow-shot apart.
Atop it a great fig-tree rises, shaggy with leaves,
beneath it awesome Charybdis gulps the dark water down.
Three times a day she vomits it up, three times she gulps it down,
that terror! Don't be there when the whirlpool swallows down -
not even the earthquake god could save you from disaster.
No, hug Scylla's crag - sail on past her - top speed!
Better by far to lose six men and keep your ship
than lose your entire crew."
Circe to Odysseus, The Odyssey, Homer (trans. Fagles)