lost song
(2021)
for string orchestra
Commissioned by National Youth Arts Wales, with kind support from Ty Cerdd, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of National Youth Orchestra of Wales
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To be confirmed
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Our world is changing at an incomprehensible rate.
What would happen if the ancient forms of our music are lost in translation?
As part of a series of works that talk with the ancient musical history of Wales, this new work plays with the imagined / misremembered folk-tunes we hum. Trying to remember the music of our childhood, or of times gone by. Shifting the focus between clear gesture with 'sung' or realised melodies and the haze of time passing. Only the smallest vestiges of any 'national' style remaining.
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strings (minimum 4.4.4.2.2)
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4’
