Choral; Orchestra (STUDY
SCORE)
SKU:
HL.48024524
SATB
and Orchestra Study
Score. Composed by
James Macmillan. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical. Softcover. 68
pages. Duration 1320
seconds. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060132964. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024524).
ISBN
9781784542566. UPC:
888680925741.
8.25x11.75x0.212
inches.
Composer's
Notes: “In writing
this work I wanted to
compose something which
was both timeless and
contemporary, both sacred
and secular. The title
(Sacred Songs) is
therefore slightly
misleading as the three
poems are concerned with
political repression in
Latin America and are
deliberately coupled with
traditional religious
texts to emphasise a
deeper solidarity with
the poor of that
sub-continent. It was my
interest in Liberation
Theology which made me
combine the poems of the
Mothers of the Plaza de
Mayo in Argentina with
the texts of the Latin
mass in Búsqueda (an
earlier music-theatre
work) and has now led me
to attempt a similar
synthesis of ideas in
Cantos Sagrados. The
voices in Ariel Dorfman's
poems belong to those who
suffer a particular type
of political repression:
the 'disappearance' of
political prisoners. Ana
Maria Mendoza's poem
about the Virgin of
Guadeloupe tackles the
same problem by asking a
more fundamental cultural
and historical
question.â€.