Singing Light: for soprano and electronics
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T1 - Singing Light
T2 - Bangor Music Festival 2025
A2 - Lewis, Andrew
PY - 2025/2/16
Y1 - 2025/2/16
N2 - ‘Singing Light’ is a setting of Dylan Thomas’ famous poem ‘In my craft or sullen art’. It describes poet’s solitary labours, late at night, while the world is sleeping and ‘only the moon rages’; not dissimilar to the circumstances in which this piece – and most of my music – was composed. The pitches and rhythms of the voice line are taken directly from a transcription of Dylan’s own reading of the poem, recorded by the BBC in 1945. The piece was composed for soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn, who gave the world premiere at the Bangor Music Festival in February 2025.
AB - ‘Singing Light’ is a setting of Dylan Thomas’ famous poem ‘In my craft or sullen art’. It describes poet’s solitary labours, late at night, while the world is sleeping and ‘only the moon rages’; not dissimilar to the circumstances in which this piece – and most of my music – was composed. The pitches and rhythms of the voice line are taken directly from a transcription of Dylan’s own reading of the poem, recorded by the BBC in 1945. The piece was composed for soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn, who gave the world premiere at the Bangor Music Festival in February 2025.
KW - Music
KW - Composition
KW - electroacoustic music
KW - poetry from Wales
M3 - Composition
PB - CE Composers Edition
Y2 - 14 February 2025 through 16 February 2025
ER -