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The first single from Victoria Kelly's Requiem - a 35 minute contemporary classical work for Soprano, Tenor, Choir and Orchestra.
Requiem is a secular contemplation of life and mortality with text made up of five New Zealand poems (by Bill Manhire, Sam Hunt, Ian Wedde, Chloe Honum and James K Baxter) intertwined with fragments of the Latin Mass for the Dead.
The poems reflect wonder, loss, longing, and surrender. The Latin fragments evoke our desire to understand and articulate our place in the universe. The themes of the work are nature – air, light, rain, the tide, the stars – transformation, impermanence, and the inherent beauty, imperfection and fragility of people.
lyrics
REQUIEM / Sam Hunt
They say ‘the lighthouse keeper’s world is round’ -
The only lighthouse keeper that I know
Inhabits space, his feet well clear of ground.
I say he is of light, of midnight snow.
That other lighthouse keeper – he they say
Whose world is round – is held responsible
For manning his one light by night; by day,
For polishing his lenses, bulb and bell.
My man, my friend who lately leaves,
Is quite another type.
He climbs no spiral stairs but go he does to man the night
To reappear among his polished stars.
credits
released November 11, 2022
Composer - Victoria Kelly
Poet - Sam Hunt
Tenor - Simon O'Neill
Video - Jonathan King
Image - Anne Noble
Victoria is a composer and performer based in Aotearoa New Zealand. She works across a spectrum of
genres.
Her contemporary work has been commissioned and performed by the NZSO, APO and NZTrio ; her musical collaborators include Neil Finn, Tami Neilson and Finn Andrews; and she’s worked as a film composer with directors such as Sir Peter Jackson and Jonathan King.
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Powerful vocals and affecting lyrics, this is magnificent stuff. Thank you for sharing your art with us Reb!
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