Choral Now
With a text distilled from a selection of hard-hitting data relating to the climate emergency, Lisa Robertson’s to tell it like it is implores us all to listen to science and respond urgently in the face of impending global catastrophe.
The score is a keenly heard vocal tour de force, inspired by the unique virtuosity and enthusiasm of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain’s 2019–2020 Fellows, and by the composer’s passionate commitment to the environment.
Projecting effects of inexorably ticking clock time, of heartbeats and the song of the extinct Kauai ‘O’o bird against the facts of global warming conveyed in a pile-up of tensile melodic strands, to tell it like it is is a countdown to apocalypse or averted disaster – our choice.
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