James Whitbourn
Lux In Tenebris
for SATB Choir, Viola, Tampura, Tam-Tam and Organ
James Whitbourn
Lux In Tenebris
for SATB Choir, Viola, Tampura, Tam-Tam and Organ
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB), Viola, Percussion and Organ
- Composer James Whitbourn
- Edition Score
- Publisher Chester Music
- Order no. CH73502-02
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Description:
Lux In Tenebris from Luminosity. For SATB choir, Viola, Tanpura, Tam-Tam, and dance theatre.
Luminosity is a multi-media work, commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for the Westminster Williamson Voices, the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum, the Blair Academy Singers (conductor, William Hammer) and the black-light dance company Archedream, for performance in Phildephia Cathedral during April 2008.
The text, compiled and edited by the composer, centres on the transcendent beauty of creation expressed by luminaries down the ages. Texts are taken from the writings of St John, St Teresa of Avila, Ryonen, St Augustine, Julian of Norwich, and St Isaac of Nineveh.
Scoring
SATB (with division)
Viola
Tanpura
Tam-Tam
Organ
Luminosity is a multi-media work, commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for the Westminster Williamson Voices, the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum, the Blair Academy Singers (conductor, William Hammer) and the black-light dance company Archedream, for performance in Phildephia Cathedral during April 2008.
The text, compiled and edited by the composer, centres on the transcendent beauty of creation expressed by luminaries down the ages. Texts are taken from the writings of St John, St Teresa of Avila, Ryonen, St Augustine, Julian of Norwich, and St Isaac of Nineveh.
Scoring
SATB (with division)
Viola
Tanpura
Tam-Tam
Organ