The Death of the Moth was composed in Oberlin, Ohio (2003, revised in Oberlin, 2006). “Men rush to their doom like moths flying to their death in the candle-flame”—Bhagavad Gita. The moth is drawn towards light, and like Icarus, will inevitably burn its wings and fall. The Death of the Moth is a meditation on mankind’s “falling from grace” and his out-of-balance relationship with nature. The title is from a short story by Virginia Woolf.
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