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Please follow the following link to see Dances of Life and Death, the short film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kPJFfIhP8

Elizabeth Bailey (soprano), Brno Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mikel Toms.

Music by Andrew Webb-Mitchell
Words by Joanna Boulter

“In Songs of Awe and Wonder, Andrew Webb-Mitchell has created a stunning set of symphonic songs on a grand scale. The music is full of passion and heroism, with glorious harmony and beautiful textures. The orchestration is beautifully detailed and the vocal writing creates a soaring line that carries the listener right through the vast canvas of the cycle. The work is dedicated to Mahler but, although the scale of the work is comparable to a Mahlerian song cycle, the music is in no way derivative and Andrew Webb-Mitchell has his own unique style and sound-world.”

Tasmin Little, violinist

Dances of Life and Death is an intimate portrait of Anna Pavlova as she prepares for the role in which she became most closely associated, The Dying Swan.

Anna Pavlova was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is perhaps most renowned for creating the role of The Dying Swan, a solo choreographed for her by Michel Fokine. The ballet, created in 1905, is danced to Le cygne from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. Pavlova was purported to have studied the movements of swans in depth before attempting her performance. In 1912, she bought a home in London called Ivy House, which had an extensive garden and a pond. Several pictures were taken during this time showing her entwined in an embrace with her favorite swan, Jack.

While touring in The Hague, Netherlands, Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation. She was also told that she would never be able to dance again if she went ahead with it. She refused to have the surgery, saying "If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead." She died of pleurisy, three weeks short of her 50th birthday. She was holding her costume from The Dying Swan when she spoke her last words, "Play the last measure very softly."




Every movement seemed to be an understated reinterpretation of the swan.
And the people passing by wondered who on Earth she could be.

Her demeanour, so convincing.
Her charisma, so entrancing.

Each and every gesture that she made revealed a deep instinctive understanding of the role.
By the water it was plain to see one was learning from the other.

This was what she did and who she was, her nature,
servant of an all consuming art,
enacting a transformation and slowly becoming the embodiment of sound.

Dance, dance through the threshold of fear.
Dance, dance with abandon.

In the twilight, an ethereal look.
In the darkness, unforgettable words.

"Play the last measure softly."

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Dances of Life and Death - Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms

Real name A Stowers.  I lived in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and many places in USA,  my taste in music is diverse.  Thank you for making my life wonderful.  Most my own song recording was done by Thomas Baxter and he also played piano in the background, many done in 2012 before I went to singing lesson.  

I have been on here since January of 2015, in less than a month I reached my 100 hits.  February 16, 2015 a soundcloud friend Walter Heuer form Austria re-packaged my song list and published it on his site.  Thank you Walter and Soundcloud..  starting to get busy now!!  February 20, 2015 300 hits, February 24, 2015 400 hits. July 2020 going to reach 10,000 hits. 


Classical Composer and Director of the British Schools Foundation Choral Programme in China.

En cours de compositions...

(In English at the end ...)
Toutes mes compositions sont faites sur ordinateur avec instruments et voix virtuelles donc il faut un peu d'imagination de l'auditeur pour ce qui est des nuances et de l'interprétation ... d'autant que je ne maitrise pas bien ces outils (qui donnent déjà des resultats assez étonnants) . Les voix notamment sont faites à partir de voix de choeurs virtuels qui ne rendent pas vraiment le même son que des solistes et dont j'ai beaucoup de mal a rendre le legato (sans parler des suraigus assez "raides" ...) Encore une fois en plus de votre imagination je compte sur votre indulgence...

In English (traduction google...) :

All my compositions are made on computer with virtual instruments and voices so it takes a little imagination of the listener for what is nuance and interpretation ... especially as I do not control well these tools (which are already producing results pretty amazing). The voices are especially made ​​from virtual voice choirs that do not really sound the same soloists and I have great difficulty making the legato (not to mention the shrill enough "stiff" ...) Another times more than your imagination I count on your indulgence ...

~~~ SOUL FURY ~~~ 
"This is how the heart sounds,
Do not change the melody,
this now, you and I, here together.
Let this being with each
other be heart-sound." 
~ Rumi & Tabriz COLLAB ~ 

All About :: The Art of Collage & Rhetorical Velocity

I am specifically interested in situations where composers anticipate and strategize future third-party remixing of their compositions as part of a larger and complex rhetorical strategy that plays out across physical and digital spaces. We find this type of thinking—the asking of “how might the text be rewritten?” and “why, where, and for whom might this text be rewritten?”—an increasingly important set of questions in a digital age characterized, for instance, by swift, easy, and deep web searching and by copying and pasting practices. 

COLLAGE ::  Artistic compositions of materials and objects pasted and/or sewn/woven over and through surfaces, often with unifying and/or juxtaposing structures, lines, colors, themes in order to create textured, alive, amplified spaces. 

SYNTHESIS (AKA Mashup): Creating Compelling Texts comprised of borrowed, reconstituted, and original material.

The art of creating such compositions.

An assemblage of diverse elements.

To paste and/or sew/weave (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.

To create such an artistic product.

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