The Second Coming
for soprano, piano and live electronics
(existing version also for mezzo)
(existing version also for mezzo)
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Specifications
Region
Europe
Estimated Duration
11 - 15min
Date
2020
ISMN : 979-0-2325-6249-0
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The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Instrumentation
Piano
Soprano voice
Real-time electronics
Soprano voice
Real-time electronics
Recording
Commission by GMEM (Marseille)
Score Details
Format - A4 / US Letter
Pages - 22
Pages - 22
