"Call of the Dance," for soprano soloist and 8-part women's chorus, is the second section of Ariadne of Knossos, a work-in-progress, which will be a theatrical musical piece exploring the pre-Hellenic origins of the Ariadne myth. I have used lyrics from several languages, which reflects the many different strands of the Ariadne myth. This refers to the ancient tradition of all-women choirs, many of which also incorporated movement.

Call Of The Dance

Die Identifikation der Kunst mit moralischer Entscheidung ordnet im Grunde die Moral dem Stile unter; der Stil tritt vor die Gesinnung, die Form rangiert vor der Idee [...]

MARY JANE LEACH is a composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from Leach’s deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities: “an acoustic Through the Looking Glass world based on sound that the performer is not making.” (The New Yorker).

Call Of The Dance

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