SATB Choir a Cappella
SKU: HL.14023340
Composed by Per Norgard.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Vocal Score.
26 pages. Music Sales
#KP01444. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14023340).
ISBN
9788759871911.
8.25x11.75x0.115 inches.
English.
To
Nocturner (2001) - for
Chamber Choir (12 or 24
Voices). Texts by Ole
Sarvig and Ib Michael.
English version
available: KP01444E
Programme note: These two
choral pieces for 12
voices consists of
radical recompositions on
of earlier themes: in
Summer's Sleep we hear
new combinations of two
'Sarvig melodies' from
the 1970s (one of which
is now in the Danish
Hymnbook under the title
aret, The Year):
Michael's Night is based
on an earlier, simple
choral song (Star
Mirror,1987), now for 12
voices and composed such
that an original idea of
simultaneously displaced,
opposite motions cf. the
poem) comes out as
desired. Of the Nocturnes
Norgard writes: Summer's
Sleep wascomposed to
stanzas of Ole Sarvig's
poem The Year (from the
collection Forstadsdigte
('Suburban Poems')) and
forms the picture of the
summer of life, which is
asleep - while the heaven
seed waits for the summer
wind (invisible to every
mind). The many layers of
text are expressed
musically in a
multilayered choral
texture with 'looks' up
and down through the
various tempo and
time-worlds: summer
sleep, summer dream. The
second nocturne,
Michael's Night, takes
its name from the author
Ib Michael, whose poem
Star Mirror (from the
collection
Himmelbegravelse ('Sky
Funeral') (1986) I
pushed/coaxed him to
expand from one to nine
stanzas. The four
selected stanzas set in
the nocturne focus on the
pan-erotic elements of
the moonlit, starlit
night. With the titles I
have chosen I have
stressed the mythic layer
of the text, the summer
night not as a dream but
as sensual reality. The
two nocturnes are
dedicated to Ivan Hansen
on the occasion of his
fiftieth birthday on 25th
February 2003, out of
gratitude for over a
quarter of a century of
inspiring
collaboration.
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