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World Premiere Performance of Jessica Curry's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Nov. 01, 2018

World Premiere Performance of Jessica Curry's <em>Everybody's Gone to the Rapture</em>

On November 6, Jessica Curry's award-winning video game score Everybody's Gone to the Rapture will receive its world premiere performance by members of the Britten Sinfonia and Britten Sinfonia Voices, led by Tim Redmond, at the Peterborough Centre for Young Musicians in Cambridgeshire, UK. This is the first time that this work will be heard in its entirety. 

Game Trailers praised Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: "Jessica Curry's phenomenal musical score deftly waxes and wanes along your journey, setting an atmosphere and progression with varied instrumentation. Magnificent choral arrangements punctuate key moments, and we couldn't help but stop and bask in their glory." Gamespot notes: "Rapture includes a soundtrack that perfectly augments the game's atmosphere of melancholy and futility. Rapture's ambience always sits you on the edge of sorrow, with the music never quite intruding in an obtrusive way, but pulling you in just close enough to dip your toes into the game world's melancholy. Its sounds make it hard for you to not feel like Shropshire itself: cold, alone, and utterly empty. A lonely, beautiful void." 


("Finding the Pattern" from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture/Jessica Curry/
Metro Voices and London Voices/James Morgan, conductor)

Additionally, on November 18, The Durham Hymns, for SATB chorus and brass band, with texts by Carol Ann Duffy, will be performed at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute under the direction of Joshua Rohde. The work was premiered in 2016 by the Voices of Hope and members of the Northern Regional Brass Band Trust, led by Alan Fernie, to commemorate their sacrifice, courage and endurance of the Country Dunham people during the Battle of the Somme which took place 100 years earlier. They noted:

"The Durham Hymns draws directly on the county's deep cultural roots in brass and choral music. The artefacts made available to the lead artists included personal letters, diaries, press reports and court records of the time, plus experiences recounted in personal memoirs written later and passed down to family. The hymns reflect aspects of the war effort from both the home and battle fronts, using the stories of individuals and communities who were deeply connected with the county."

For more information on Jessica Curry, visit fabermusic.com.

Jessica Curry
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
for chorus with orchestra/large ensemble
2.1.ca.2.2-0.0.0.0-pno-harp-strings
66' 

The Durham Hymns
for SATB chorus and brass band
poetry by Carol Ann Duffy
30'

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