Night is worn
Orchestra and two voices
Premiered by: DKDM Sinfonietta with Emma Ilona Mustaniemi (soprano) and Stephen George Yeseta (countertenor), conducted by Jean Thorel
8th March 2019 ;
Pulsar Festival, Copenhagen
score & parts currently under revision
Performance Note:
Night is worn is set in a world without light where only shadows reach the earth and touch the skin. The piece is set in fragments to William Blake's collection of poems: 'The Songs of Innocence and of Experience.' A setting devoured, Night is worn considers what a constant state of consumption does to the human psyche; affecting the body and mind as well as the world around us - that which is, and that which is yet to come.
“The sons of eternity singing, And none shall gather leaves.”
