A Forest Unfolding

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Label
New Focus Recordings
Release Date
May 15, 2026
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Eric Moe, Melinda Wagner
    • PERFORMER
      Rachel Calloway, Richard Powers, Nicholas Susi, Thomas Meglioranza, Laura Gilbert, Joseph Eller, Eri
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 15, 2026
    • UPC
      613527005085
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR472
    • LABEL
      New Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Contemporary Era
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

      Performer: Richard Powers

    2. Part I: No Voices and No Shade: Native Trees

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

      Performer: Rachel Calloway

    3. Part I: No Voices and No Shade: From the Book of Job

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

      Performer: Richard Powers

    4. Part II: They Have Stood Round My Sleep: Eternal Rhythm

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

    5. Part II: They Have Stood Round My Sleep: Woodswoman Etude

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

    6. Part II: They Have Stood Round My Sleep: Trees

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

      Performer: Thomas Meglioranza

    7. Part III: A Dreamer, Dreaming: From Thoreau's Notebooks

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

      Performer: Richard Powers

    8. Part III: A Dreamer, Dreaming: In a Country Once Forested

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

      Performer: Rachel Calloway, Thomas Meglioranza

    9. Part IV: Everything in the Forest: Variation-Deciso

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

    10. Part IV: Everything in the Forest: Eternal Song

      Composer: Anonymous, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner

      Performer: Rachel Calloway, Richard Powers, Thomas Meglioranza


A Forest Unfolding is a collaborative work inspired by recent scientific research into the rich communication and subterranean connectivity between trees. Four writers-the environmentalists Bill McKibben and Joan Maloof, along with the novelists Richard Powers and Kim Stanley Robinson-selected prose passages and poems on the relations among people and trees. They presented these selections to four composers-Eric Moe, Melinda Wagner, Stephen Jaffe, and David Kirkland Garner-who set these words into a linked sequence of recitatives and arias. The resulting whole traces a narrative arc beginning with human estrangement from nature and ending with a glimpse of the endless cooperation that knits a forest together.