Funsavers: Bobby Previte's RHAPSODY

What is the experience of being in transit? Separated from your home but not yet at your destination, you are neither here nor there, confined with strangers in an intimate environment for a predetermined amount of time. Uncomfortable, yet somehow free. To travel is to be bound with these strangers by faith—faith in the vessel which carries you, faith in the people who operate it, and ultimately, faith in the strangers waiting at your destination.

In 2015, Bobby Previte was awarded the Greenfield Prize in Music at the Hermitage Artist Retreat to create a new work. RHAPSODY is the result.

RHAPSODY is an evening-length, acoustic song cycle dealing with the experience of being “in transit.” Beginning from the point of view of a passenger sitting comfortably in an airplane, RHAPSODY twists, turns, and migrates until arriving in the dead of night on an unfamiliar shore.