Peter Kramer ‘14

AMA for Women’s Chorale

AMA, which is the title of Peter Kramer’s piece, comes from the Japanese 海女, which translates literally to “sea women, the name of traditional female deep sea divers in Japan. In Peter’s program note, he writes “The piece deals specifically with breath, both inhalations and exhalations on syllables derived from fragments of a poem from the Man’yōshū, arranged by the composer.” Exploration of breath in ragged whispers and in combination with thin fragmented harmonies evoke the sounds of the sea, and the otherworldliness of being underwater.