Released on Wooden Cities debut album, WORK, Frederic Rzewski's The Price of Oil is a quasi-theatrical work following the model of the Greek chorus. The piece features two speaking characters (the "dealer" and the "worker") who, the composer explains, "never meet or interact directly, but make up complimentary parts of a superstructure which governs their individual behavior and whose functioning in turn depends upon their active presence." The score was originally written using a novel graphic notation, and has been adapted for Wooden Cities by Associate Director, Ethan Hayden. Scores and texts are available below:
