Tucket, Follow Your Leader, and Pigs & Fishes

Tucket, Follow Your Leader, and Pigs & Fishes are the first 3 "Operas" in a series of 12 Opere della Musica Povera - or "Works of a Poor Music". Tucket is an older English version of the Italian Toccata. Often associated with keyboard pieces of a technically virtuoso character, "Tuckets" were also sometimes written for other instrumental ensembles. Follow Your Leader is the ambiguous motto of Herman Melville's short story "Benito Cereno". Pigs & Fishes, cited in the 61st hexagram of the I Ching are considered animals of great intractability.

Tucket, Follow Your Leader, and Pigs & Fishes were commissioned by the Arts Council of New Haven and the National Endowment for the Arts.