Roberts, Claire Victoria: The moon is distant from the sea
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SSS solos and SSAATTBB unaccompanied (with divisions)
For ensembles committed to the art of performance and secure in contemporary idioms this score offers a refreshing take on a much-loved poem by Emily Dickinson. The composer is also a singer steeped in jazz, improvisation, folk and classical genres, whose music challenges and inspires choirs through her clear understanding of vocal potential. In The moon is distant from the sea, a melody of artless simplicity is floated through a seascape of blended aspirant, murmuring sounds and filigree vocal ornament, accruing depth and distance before a magical reprise of the opening gesture.
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Claire Victoria Roberts writes:
Composed for the National Youth Choir’s Fellowship Ensemble, The moon is distant from the sea contrasts delicate three-part harmony sung by solo female voices with broader choral textures, moving between fragile and intimate passages and more richly scored ones. This is what I imagined when reading Emily Dickinson’s The moon is distant from the sea – the way human connection can be subtle and nuanced, while also representing something vast and encompassing, just as the movement of the tides expresses the subtlest feelings of attraction in Dickinson’s exquisite love poem.’
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