Name: Helen by Emma Wilde
Duration: 21 min 42 s
Description: For solo mezzo soprano, choir, cello, horns and timpani

Written by The Chapman Family.

Produced by Patrick Jordan in Spring 2013.

She said, "it's too late now."
I know, I know, I know.
"I know I've made mistakes."
"This spark is broken now."
And my idiot heart,
Once again.
Again, again, again.

When the world falls apart,
Will you drag me under?
As the world falls apart,
Will you take me down?
Take me down.

And "you give me hurt,"
She said, she said, she said
"But at least I give you time"
My heart will beat forever,
But our eyes go black in time.

When the world falls apart,
Will you drag me under?
As the world falls apart,
Will you take me down?
Take me down.

She said, "I'm not the one for feeling"
He said, "well, I want more,
You hear the beat of a broken heart,
You hear the beat of nothing more."

I know I've made mistakes.

Again, again, again.

As the world falls apart,
Will you drag me under?
As the world falls apart,
Will you take me down?
As the world falls apart,
Will you take me down?
As the world falls apart,
Will you drag me down?

The Beat Of A Broken Heart

For solo mezzo soprano, choir, cello, horns and timpani

Helen

Winner of ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Leo Kaplan Award.

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Scored for organ and orchestra, Over and Under explores the possible uniform and divergent relationship between such immense instrumental bodies. This relationship evolves so that by the end of the piece, the organ and orchestra have ultimately switched roles, and in order to reach this outcome the two instrumental bodies must begin in contrasting positions and gradually progress to replace one another.

Special thanks to organist Weston Jennings, conductor David Yi, and the Yale Philharmonia for realizing the work, it is a truly dream of mine to write a piece for organ and orchestra, specifically with the Woolsey Hall organ, and I couldn’t be more grateful.

Over and Under

Emma Wilde (b.1991) was born in Manchester, UK and is currently based in Mexico. She completed a PhD in Composition  at the University of Manchester. Her music explores dramatic contrasts and juxtapositions and is influenced by other cultures and art forms, including the paintings of Kandinsky and Latin American rhythms.

She has recently had works comissioned by ensembles and festivals such as the New London Children´s Choir, London Sinfonietta, Soundstate Festival 2019 Southbank Centre, St Andrews Voices Festival 2019 (Scotland) and Morelia Music Festival 2019 (Mexico). 

Emma has worked with renowned ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra (Panufnik Composers Scheme 2017), Britten Sinfonia (whilst she was shortlisted in the OPUS 2016 composition competition), the Hebrides Ensemble, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Muses Trio (Australia) and Psappha. 
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Emma is a finalist in the Royal Overseas League Composition Award 2020 in association with London Sinfonietta. She was awarded the Premio Nuestra America 2017 (Our America Prize) for her string quartet Tijax which resulted in performances from Cuarteto Jose White in Mexico during 2018. She was also the winner of the St Andrews New Music Ensemble/Scottish Chamber Orchestra Call for Scores 2017.
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Emma's music has been featured in festivals including the St Magnus Festival 2013 (Orkney, UK) the New Music North West Festival 2012 and 2015 (RNCM, Manchester, UK), Festival de Composición UANL 2016 (Monterrey, México), Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez 2019 & 2017 (Mexico City, Mexico), Women in the Creative Arts Conference 2017 (ANU, Canberra, Australia) and the Horizon Festival of Arts & Culture 2017 (Queensland, Australia).
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Her work El Hilo del Tiempo, released on NMC Recordings, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and is featured in the Spotfiy curated playlist 'Rise of the Classical Accordion'.

Helen

Emma Wilde

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