Choral
SKU:
HL.1466075
SATB
and Cello (Full Score and
Cello Part). Composed
by Bruce Adolphe. LKM
Music. Concert.
Softcover. 36 pages.
Duration 960 seconds.
Lauren Keiser Music
Publishing #X094036.
Published by Lauren
Keiser Music Publishing
(HL.1466075).
ISBN
9798892702331. UPC:
196288212614.
9.0x12.0x0.186
inches.
Written for
the Chapel Choir of
University College,
Oxford, Giles Underwood,
Director of Music. This
setting of Pireeni
Sundaralingam's poem
LOT'S WIVES (about the
Sri Lankan Civil War that
took place between
1983-2009) was written in
June of 2023, during the
war between Russia and
Ukraine and four months
before the escalation
between Israel and
Palestine. Bruce Adolphe
describes the work: “As
a composer, I was drawn
to the way the poem looks
back in time as the women
look back on destruction,
creating a temporal
counterpoint of past and
present. To set these
words, I combined the
sorrowful lyricism of
looking back to the past
with the fierce
dissonance of present
violence. The cello plays
several roles: it
triggers memory; it
comments on the text and
on the music that is
sung; it provides
accompaniment.”.
