Bruce Mahin - Graham Hair: Music from 3 Continents
7/30/2013, 12 Tracks, 43:54
Featuring
Helen Thomson
Jacqueline Pollauf
Frances Morrison-Allen
Alex South
Graham Hair
Scottish Voices
Bruce P. Mahin
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Composition History
The texts for Graham Hair's "Songs from the Turkish" are English versions by Cypriot Süha Faiz of 14th-century Turkish poet Yunus Emre's mystical poetry.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bruce Mahin's "Whitman Psalms" explores the enormity of God and humanity's difficulty in relating to such a magnitude, drawing text from Psalms and Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
Compositional Technique
Graham Hair's "O Venezia" uses texts in Latin, French, German, English, and Italian, ranging from medieval to the late twentieth century, all connected to Venice.
Compositional Technique
Graham Hair's "Songs from the Turkish" uses a nineteen-tone scale to the octave, augmenting the seven diatonic notes with twelve chromatic ones for expressive nuances.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Graham Hair's "O Venezia" draws its title from Richard Wagner's diary account of a sleepless night in Venice, deeply affected by the sounds of the lagoon and gondoliers' songs.
Performer Biography
Scottish Voices is an ensemble of women's voices, directed by composer Graham Hair, founded in 1991 and based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Composition History
Graham Hair's "O Venezia" is a multi-voice song cycle funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board of the U.K. and the Scottish Arts Council.
