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Connected skies: solo series challenge is a project to challenge myself to compose six new solo works of about ten mins each in length between October 2020 to May 2021, with each being digitally performed in a monthly virtual event from 2021.
New works for double bass, cello, flute with glissando head joint, accordion, percussion and mezzo soprano will be written. In addition to digital concerts, this project will include blogs, digital pre-concert talks and interactive Q&A sessions, giving us a chance to share our process in this continuing challenging and strange times.
Following the digital pre-concert presentation and digital concert of new piece for solo cello Woven half dreams, please join Angela and Sarah for a live Q&A.
To join the Q&A please sign up free via our eventbrite event
CONNECTED SKIES #2 - Friday 19th February at 7.30pm (UK time)
Preconcert presentation – showing collaboration process between composer Angela Elizabeth Slater and cellist Sarah Gait
Concert performance of new work ‘Woven half dreams' for solo cello performed by Sarah Gait
Followed by live Q&A (details emailed via Eventbrite)
We are delighted to share the result of our collaboration on Friday 19th February at 7.30pm (UK time)
Programme note:
Woven half dreams is the second piece in the Connected skies collection of solo pieces. All the pieces are reflective of the difficult times of 2020, drawing on a poem authored by Angela Elizabeth Slater as well. Woven half dreams explores unfurling threads and lines that are interrupted by burst of aggressive energetic passages. These aggressive bursts take more and more prominence until they push the weaving lines completely away through the centre of the piece, before returning to the weaving lines through delicate harmonic threads to the end of the piece.
When the sky enclosed around me
Shrinking ever smaller
I found woven half dreams
fractured in spaces inbetween
which ache and scream
I tried to shut the noise out
but it echoed right back at me
.
New works for double bass, cello, flute with glissando head joint, accordion, percussion and mezzo soprano will be written. In addition to digital concerts, this project will include blogs, digital pre-concert talks and interactive Q&A sessions, giving us a chance to share our process in this continuing challenging and strange times.
Following the digital pre-concert presentation and digital concert of new piece for solo cello Woven half dreams, please join Angela and Sarah for a live Q&A.
To join the Q&A please sign up free via our eventbrite event
CONNECTED SKIES #2 - Friday 19th February at 7.30pm (UK time)
Preconcert presentation – showing collaboration process between composer Angela Elizabeth Slater and cellist Sarah Gait
Concert performance of new work ‘Woven half dreams' for solo cello performed by Sarah Gait
Followed by live Q&A (details emailed via Eventbrite)
We are delighted to share the result of our collaboration on Friday 19th February at 7.30pm (UK time)
Programme note:
Woven half dreams is the second piece in the Connected skies collection of solo pieces. All the pieces are reflective of the difficult times of 2020, drawing on a poem authored by Angela Elizabeth Slater as well. Woven half dreams explores unfurling threads and lines that are interrupted by burst of aggressive energetic passages. These aggressive bursts take more and more prominence until they push the weaving lines completely away through the centre of the piece, before returning to the weaving lines through delicate harmonic threads to the end of the piece.
When the sky enclosed around me
Shrinking ever smaller
I found woven half dreams
fractured in spaces inbetween
which ache and scream
I tried to shut the noise out
but it echoed right back at me
.