...And It's Again - Carla Bley, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

DAD:

Ach!

'Orchestra'

Loudspeaker:

I’m riding the escalator

I’m riding the escalator

Over the hill

'Phantom music'

Of radio otters

Full of your form

Which is multiple

Does it matter

If it doesn’t take

An act to be?

To be thanking the window

To elave it in confusion

To be opened in closed

And to tell the season

By what’s being eaten?

VIVA:

If this time

The parrots seem green

And it’s true

What last time was does

It matter

It this time

It’s not?

'Yodelling ventriloquist'

Loudspeaker:

Hey!

Don’t keep saying that!

Multiple public members:

Voice:

Blindmen don’t bluff

MPM:

Voice:

Blindmen don’t get the blues

MPM:

Lord

Voice ii:

O Rawalpindi

Jack I & ii:

It’s again

It’s again

It’s again

And again

(Again)

Ginger ii:

(Again)

Jack I & ii:

It’s again

'Desert band'

Sand shepherd:

(Again)

So late at night

There is light

With all probable things

Upon you

A day begins for you

You do not want it

Only the humor it takes

To keep things

From becoming funny

Since you couldn’t mean it more

If you meant it

Confusing what’s right

With what’s right

And what’s wrong

With what’s wrong

Staying the way

No one on Earth

Could make you be

Not for you

Not for me

O!

Rawalpindi

BLINDMAN (closer than the ear can hear):

Oh

How

Beaut…

'The confessions of Calliope Bill'

Viva i:

Popular explanations of pregnancy

Viva ii:

Popular explanations of pregnancy

Viva i:

Horribly disguised and as narrow

Viva ii:

Horribly disguised and as narrow

Viva i:

And as tan as beer

Calliope bill:

As narrow and as tan as beer

Viva ii:

And as tan as beer

Mutant:

The hectic silhouettes of chins

Viva i:

The hectic silhouettes of chins

Viva ii:

The hectic silhouettes of chins

Mutant:

Answering

Viva i:

Ans —

LION:

Answering

Mutant:

Answering

Calliope bill:

Answering

Mutant ii:

Closer than the ear can hear

It’s again

LION:

Again

Blindman:

Again

Mutant i:

It’s again

LION:

And again

Blindman:

And again

Mutant i:

And again

Speakers:

Silent mindsweepers

Keepers of the sea

Rough so gregariously

And absolutely guilty

Multiple public members:

Again

Again

Again

Again

JACK:

It’s again

MPM:

Again

Again

JACK:

And again

MPM:

Again

Again

JACK:

And again

MPM I:

Again

Again

Mpm ii:

Again

Again

JACK:

And again

MPM I:

Again

Again

Mpm ii:

Again

Again

JACK:

Again

MPM I:

Again

Again

Mpm ii:

Again

Again

JACK:

(Again)

MPM I:

Again

Again

Mpm ii:

Again

Again

Mpm I & ii:

Again

Again

Again

Again