The New Moon for SSATTB Choir: SSATTB Choral Octavo
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The New Moon for SSATTB Choir: SSATTB Choral Octavo
for Double Mixed Choir (SATB-SATB), Singing Glasses and Chimes
By Eriks Ešenvalds / Words by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
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The New Moon was Eriks Ešenvalds' contribution to Moon Songs, a 2012 collection of pieces about the moon by ten Latvian composers that was commissioned by the outstanding Riga-based youth choir "Kamer...".
The words are by the troubled and tragic Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sara Teasdale, who died by her own hand in 1933, and whom Ešenvalds has set on a number of occasions.
The opening chorale is a forthright one, accusing and angry, its diatonic dissonances intensified by sidesteps into homophonic canon. But as the moon is caught sight of 'over the factories ... in the cloudy seas', the texture itself clouds over as the canonic iterations are gradually subsumed into an oscillating pair of thick, quiet chords. From the hard-won stillness a new chorale emerges as the 'maiden moon wakes up in the sky' (the moon is male in Latvian mythology, but not here). Tuned wine glasses and chimes create an other-worldly halo around this wondrous apparition, which eventually recedes into unresolved nothingness, as the afterglow resonates into silence. -from notes by Gabriel Jackson ©
The words are by the troubled and tragic Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sara Teasdale, who died by her own hand in 1933, and whom Ešenvalds has set on a number of occasions.
The opening chorale is a forthright one, accusing and angry, its diatonic dissonances intensified by sidesteps into homophonic canon. But as the moon is caught sight of 'over the factories ... in the cloudy seas', the texture itself clouds over as the canonic iterations are gradually subsumed into an oscillating pair of thick, quiet chords. From the hard-won stillness a new chorale emerges as the 'maiden moon wakes up in the sky' (the moon is male in Latvian mythology, but not here). Tuned wine glasses and chimes create an other-worldly halo around this wondrous apparition, which eventually recedes into unresolved nothingness, as the afterglow resonates into silence. -from notes by Gabriel Jackson ©
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