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Coda was written as a companion piece to Anton Webern's ineffable 5 Movements for String Quartet - a work whose brevity and sparseness seems to describe all that is unutterable. As I practiced, rehearsed, and studied this work, I read up on Webern's death (he was shot during the post-WWII Allied Occupation by a drunken US Army cook who mistook his lit cigar for a grenade), part of the collateral damage of a war already won. I read up on how he survived the war; as neither hero nor victim, neither critic nor collaborator. I thought about how many of my Austrian friends and family understand this, and how, at least at that pre-45 time, many of my white American friends and family did not: how complicity is a quiet ordinary way of life, and how war is not a question of bad guys and good guys but of human lives, used and thrown away.

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After the war
Twilight cigar
Dreaming of small songs
Mother’s been gone
Such a long time now
Don’t wake the children

He wasn’t a collaborator
But then, he didn’t say no neither

After the victory
Back in North Carolina
Safe on the right side of history
He drowns in whiskey dreams
Ungraspable melodies

Hadn’t you heard?
The war is over.
Hadn’t you heard?
There’s nothing left to kill.
The sky is drawn and quartered
We are safe within our borders.

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from A Few Concerns, released January 15, 2021

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Meaghan Burke is a Brooklyn-based cellist, singer, and songwriter of many hats. She can be found playing with The Rhythm Method string quartet, Forever House, Loose Lips Sink Ships, The Gene, Dead Language, and various other outfits.

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