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« on: March 02, 2016, 09:14:26 am » |
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Thanks for the posting of the work. I have one too as a backup, and guess I had 28 days of iplayer had it gone wrong.
Well, what I first understood to be a 25 minute mass grew into a work with sections of the mass interspersed with narration and poetry, but I wasn’t sure if the poetry was sung or narrated. What we heard was quite different, substantially longer, very powerful, and successful I think in moving away from the mass to the interlude and narration over orchestra, which must take a lot of practice.
I only read about the Vernon Watkins connection (my post above) in relation to this broadcast but despite searching joint names, nothing now comes up, although what does come up, as one would expect, is that they, and Daniel Jones, were friends, and she had earlier set a Watkins’ poem. It seems that the Watkins link to the mass was wrong. Apologies (yet again!).
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