The Blue Hour

Solos & Duets
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Commissioned by A Far Cry; Washington Performing Arts; Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University; Hancher Auditorium at University of Iowa; Opening Nights at Florida State University.

Details surrounding the project

Duration: 1h13m

For soprano soloist with string orchestra

The Blue Hour is a song cycle born of a collaboration among five composers—Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider—commissioned and performed by the chamber orchestra A Far Cry, who are joined by singer Shara Nova. Set to excerpts from Carolyn Forché’s epic poem On Earth, the music follows one woman’s journey through the liminal space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non-linear images. Exploring memories of childhood, war, love, and loss, The Blue Hour amplifies the beauty, pain, and fragility of human life from a collective female perspective.

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