GREGORY LEE NEWSOME

Lux aeternafor chamber choir

Gregory Lee Newsome

Lux aeterna

Duration

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Instrumentation

Chamber choir (SATB)

Premiere

This piece was premiered by Phoenix Chamber Choir, conductor Ramona Luengen, on November 17th, 2001 at Holy Rosary Cathedral, Vancouver, on the programme Luminé.

Programme Note

Via the merging of poetics and structure I hope to create symbolic emotional states in music that uncover meaning in unknowable aspects of human existence. In Lux aeterna an eternal, calmly ecstatic moment is symbolized by a single sonorous object that eventually yields significant self-contrast prior to a new understanding.

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