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Horizons
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48 pages
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324x247mm
978-0-19-335518-7
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Paperback
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02 April 1998
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for mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra (the vocal score includes a piano reduction)
Horizons sets poems with the sea as their theme. The music has appropriate breadth and spaciousness, a yearning, and a sense of eventual arrival in Tennyson's words 'when I have crossed the bar'.
Orchestral material is available on hire. Forces or CategoryMezzo solo, SATB, & orchestraDuration30 minutesDifficultyModerately
difficultOrchestration2(2nd + picc).2.2.2-4.2.3.0-hp.2perc.timps-stringsProgramme Notesi. Where lies the Land Arthur Hugh Clough
ii. My Soul is awakened Anne Bronte
iii. Roadways John Masefield
iv. Exultation Emily Dickinson
v. The Long Trail Rudyard Kipling
vi. Now Voyager Depart Walt Whitman
vii. Crossing the Bar Alfred Tennyson
Ive travelled now a hundred years and more,
And yet the thing I seek I cannot find.
This paraphrase from Chaucers Pardonners Tale sums up for me the nature of our
physical and spiritual quest. Hedged around by the hum-drum and trivial, we continue to search for perfection and to reach for the divine. Electron-microscopes reveal new secrets of DNA, and the Hubble space telescope begins to yield the mysteries of Neptune, our farthest planet, and to glimpse infinity through black holes. Measured against space travel our own journeys may seem circumscribed, but they can be real voyages of self discovery.
As members of an island people we are constantly aware of the sea as a physical boundary; we are drawn towards it, and into it, then over it and now, by the modern miracle of Eurostar, underneath it. The shipping forecasts, like the tides, are a twice daily reminder of its ever presence, even to the bedridden of Birmingham. Courtesy of Mr.
Beaufort, a severe gale force nine is reported for Fair Isle and Faeroes, Fastnet or Finisterre. Sqally showers buffet Stornaway or Shannon, with storm force winds strengthening on exposed headlands and variable visibility in Dogger or off Dover. The names roll in on us, tolling like bell-buoys from Rockall and Cape Wrath.
I guess that my fascination with the sea began, as for most other Midland landlubbers, on the sands of Skeggy and shingle of Sheringham. Still a landlubber in Captain Cooks Yorkshire, I head east to Saltburn, Scarborough or Whitby for my fix of the North Sea. However calm it is, I am still scared when I recall returning on a ferry from Denmark in a force 12 gale. We knew we were in for trouble when we saw the crew taking sickness tablets. Psalm 107 became very
real: They are carried up to heaven, and down again to the deep, they reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end.
However, in choosing from the vast wealth of sea poetry my instinct was to avoid the epic narrative and the countless shipwrecks and heartache. As my title suggests, I wanted to raise my eyes from the pavement. Clough invites us to do this with his Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Masefield and rumbustious Rudyard entice us to far distant shores. Whitman and finally Tennyson (a Lincolnshire man) point us even further. I was glad, though, to chance upon two feminine reflections which appeal to my inland side: Anne Brontes Lines in a wood on a windy day and Emily Dickinsons Exultation. Any of these are worth reciting if you
find yourself waiting in Peterborough bus station.
© Andrew Carter
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Andrew Carter (b.1939) Andrew Carter was born in 1939 into a Leicestershire family of tower and handbell ringers. Following a music degree at the University of Leeds, he joined York Minster Choir, and was subsequently Director of Music at the Bar Convent Grammar School, where he achieved his first successes as a choir trainer.
His wealth of experience of directing both mixed-voice and upper-voice choirs has given him a deep understanding of the voice, expressed by a lyricism and sense of drama underpinned by distinctive, often bitter-sweet harmonies. His vast collection of anthems and Christmas carols, together with a substantial number of large-scale choral works, have earned him a reputation as one of Britain's most respected contemporary choral composers.Andrew Carter's website
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Where lies the Land
My soul is awakened
Roadways
Exultation
The Long Trail
Now Voyager Depart
Crossing the Bar
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