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Virtual Premiere of Gavin Bryars's Above Water

Mar. 01, 2021

Gavin Bryars's Above Water, a new work for choir and brass ensemble, features a text by Blake Morrison and is dedicated to Bryars’s home town of Goole in East Riding. Above Water will be performed by local ensembles Armthorpe Elmfield Brass Band and Read’s Warblers and will be broadcast online as part of SOUND UK's "A Song for Us" beginning on April 28.

Conceived and produced by SOUND UK, "A Song for Us" is described by the producers as "using music to bear testimony to a time like no other. A Song for Us is a collection of music that encapsulates the wide range of experiences and emotions we are living through. It reminds us of the positives, celebrates those to who we owe so much, bears witness to people’s losses and struggles. We want this to bring artists and communities together despite being apart. To create a musical time capsule of what we all desperately hope will be a once in a generation event."

Listen to Gavin Bryars's Two Love Songs (2010) here: 

(Two Love Songs/Gavin Bryars/Women of The Crossing Choir/Donald Nally, conductor)

To learn more about Gavin Bryars, visit: schott-music.com.

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