The Dream of Innocent III

The amplified cello may have a "starring role" in Hyla's musical portrait, but piano and percussion also carve out substantive parts in response. The work takes it title from a Rennaissance fresco by Giotto, in which Pope Innocent III dreams of Saint Francis shouldering the weight of the Catholic Church, slowly bringing it back to its upright position. Dream appears on the all-Hyla CD Wilson's Ivory-Bill, which sports an image of the fresco on its cover.