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Thunder/Perfect Mind
for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
mezzo soprano et orchestre
Détails du produit
Description
Commissioned by the CBC, Thunder: Perfect Mind was written to fill out the time on a proposed CD featuring Eleanor James singing two of my other works for voice and orchestra, both written for her: Letters from Mignon and the orchestral version of the Minnelieder.
The text of Thunder: Perfect Mind comes from a papyrus discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. It is a revelation discourse delivered in the first person by a female theurgist. The tone is forceful throughout and full of deliberate antitheses and paradoxes, viz.: 'I am the whore and the holy one, I am the wife and the virgin.' The text also contains exhortations to hear and reflect on these antitheses, revealing that the narrator believes herself to be, and wants us to believe her to be, a seer intimate with all the incomprehensible forces of the cosmos. This seemed to be a perfect text for the dramatic voice of Eleanor James, and I wrote the piece quickly, finishing it just in time for her return to Canada. R. Murray Schafer
The text of Thunder: Perfect Mind comes from a papyrus discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. It is a revelation discourse delivered in the first person by a female theurgist. The tone is forceful throughout and full of deliberate antitheses and paradoxes, viz.: 'I am the whore and the holy one, I am the wife and the virgin.' The text also contains exhortations to hear and reflect on these antitheses, revealing that the narrator believes herself to be, and wants us to believe her to be, a seer intimate with all the incomprehensible forces of the cosmos. This seemed to be a perfect text for the dramatic voice of Eleanor James, and I wrote the piece quickly, finishing it just in time for her return to Canada. R. Murray Schafer
Orchestral Cast
pic.2.1.ca.1.bcl.1.cbsn-2.2.2.0-timp.perc(crot, xyl, tri, sus cyms, pitched gong, tom-t, s.d, b.d, tubular chimes)-pno-str
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Titre:
Thunder/Perfect Mind
for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Edition:
Matériel d'exécution
Maison d'édition:
Arcana Editions
Year of composition:
2002
Durée:
12 ′
Travaux commandés :
commissioned by the Music Dept of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Détails techniques
Numéro du produit:
LARC 24
Droits de livraison:
Droits de distribution pour tous les pays sauf les États-Unis et le Canada
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