Music by Jamie Moffatt, words by Emily Dickinson
Performed by The Australian Voices – www.theaustralianvoices.com
The Hour and the Clime is a piece meant to musically evoke the ways in which being separated from loved ones by physical distance can obscure the ways we try to communicate sincere feeling. Without touch, or vocal tone, or a kind facial expression we can say things we don’t realise we’re saying.
Included in the score is a collection of anonymised messages that have been sent between people in long distance relationships that form a backbone of the composition. My eternal gratitude goes to those people who allowed me, and by extension you, a window into their most private expressions of heartache, love, loss, and the mundanities of watching a movie together from the other side of the world.
Special thanks also go to Kieran O’Dea, Chris Koop, Rick Smith, Gordon Hamilton, and Rachel Bruerville, who in the midst of my writers block and stress over my relative inexperience as a composer have suggested edits to scansion, a chord or voicing here or there, and provided general support and friendship through the rollercoaster of composing this work
(and who in one notable occurance, contributed a LOT of texts to the aforementioned collection).
And to Emily Dickinson, who once said…
‘unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality’
…and who as a result will forever be immortal herself.
Music by Jamie Moffatt, Lyrics from the Poetic Edda.
Commissioned by and for the Four Winds Youth Music Festival – https://www.fourwinds.com.au
Orchestral arrangement by Gordon Hamilton – https://www.hamilton-g.com
Performed by: Lisa Young – https://www.lisayoungmusic.com
The Australian Voices – https://www.theaustralianvoices.com
Western Sydney Youth Orchestra – https://syo.com.au/programs/weekly-pr…
Bega Valley Youth Choir
Greg Sheehan
Geoffrey Badger
Vocal solos: Jamie Moffatt and Lisa Young
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