Name: Fire in the Garden: A Climate Change Trilogy: "A Prayer for the Earth" by Giselle Wyers
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: Commissioned by Cantilena Women's Chorale, Jennifer Kane, conductor. Third movement of a tripartite work confronting the devastating effects of climate change. Text by Barbara Dening. Miriam Anderson, Taylor Iverson, Danya Clevenger and Giselle Wyers, performers. Jeff Rice, audio engineer. Contact wyersg@uw.edu for perusal score.

Commissioned by Cantilena Women's Chorale, Jennifer Kane, conductor. Third movement of a tripartite work confronting the devastating effects of climate change. Text by Barbara Dening. Miriam Anderson, Taylor Iverson, Danya Clevenger and Giselle Wyers, performers. Jeff Rice, audio engineer. Contact wyersg@uw.edu for perusal score.

Fire in the Garden: A Climate Change Trilogy: "A Prayer for the Earth"

This is a track from Concerto Palatino's new CD (to be released June
2023 for the label Passacaille)called, Ex tenebris ad lucem: Venetian Music of Penitence from a time of Plague (1575-77). The CD juxtaposes music from the Venetian plague years with a newly commissioned work of American composer Robert Kyr. Here you can hear the second half of Kyr's work, which alternates transformed excepts of Venetian motets from the time of the plague with brief arias for soprano soloist(Hana Blazikova) accompanied by cornetto, violin, violone and organ.

Kyr - Virgil From Darkness Into Light Excerpt

Performed by Cascadian Chorale who commissioned this work in 2014.  Gary Cannon conducts; full album called "Welcome Home".  Poetry by Stephen Crane. 
Order directly from composer. 

Fire in the Garden: A Climate Change Trilogy: "A Prayer for the Earth"

Giselle Wyers

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