"I was inspired by the text ‘New Moon’ by D. H. Lawrence to compose this piece for choir. It is a work which gives individual singers an element of freedom to make decisions about which notes they sing and when they sing them.
At the beginning and at the end, each singer sings the same line, but in their own time. This creates a cascading effect, with each voice moving separately.
In the middle section, everyone sings unified in time, but singers get to choose which notes within each cord to select. In doing so, they get to navigate through the chords I have written, and get to choose how to paint their own melodic lines through the music.
I selected these compositional techniques to reflect my understanding of the poem. Individual lines come and go, they linger behind, and are gone, as the new moon."
New Moon Text: D. H. Lawrence
The new moon, of no importance
lingers behind as the yellow sun glares and is gone beyond the sea’s edge; earth smokes blue;
the new moon, in cool height above the blushes, brings a fresh fragrance of heaven to our senses.
16 окт 2023
