2、In 1969 I wrote
that this piece “moves from the street to lower and lower levels below 42nd Street and
Broadway. Sonic objects from the past lurk in the subway tunnels and at times
try to assert themselves again. In the end they are buried and can only emerge
from the tunnels as ghosts which ride the trains.” In 1986 I returned to this
style of composition in works such as Homenaje a
Milanés (1987), Dima Dobralsa Domoy (1994) and ’U ha’amata
’atou ’i te himene(1996).