The Wavering Sea (Kit Soden, words from Kelly Lee Phipps' Engaging the Infinite)

Carly Simon interview @ mvyradio Studios 2018 - John Prine

Carly made a surprise visit during The Lunch Hour to bring in a home recording from 1970 of John Prine, in her New York apartment, teaching her "Angel From Montgomery," which she went on to record herself.  Carly tells us that Kris Kristopherson, Bob Dylan and Steve Goodman were also present that night.

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Carly Simon interview @ mvyradio Studios 2018 - John Prine

Performed by Ellen McAteer, soprano, and Rachael Kerr, piano.

Poem by Emily Pauline Johnson
Music composed by Kit Vaughan Soden

Fire-Flowers, Performed by Ellen McAteer, soprano, and Rachael Kerr, piano

Overture: Voyaging through Time's dark branches to the lucid stars
Performed by the McGill Symphony Orchestra, directed by Alexis Hauser, February 15th, 2020. Mix and Mastering: Ausma Lāce.
Composed by Kit Vaughan Soden, in fulfilment of the Andrew Svoboda Prize in orchestral composition.
This is to be an orchestral Overture to a future three-act opera for full cast, chorus, and orchestra. The First Act of the opera was commissioned by FAWN Chamber Creative, with a Libretto by David James Brock, premiered May 24th, 2019, as part of Pandora.

Overture: Voyaging through Time's dark branches to the lucid stars

Kit Vaughan Soden is a composer, researcher, and music educator based in Montreal, QC, Canada. He is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at McGill University, studying with John Rea, Philippe Leroux, and Stephen McAdams. He is a student member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) and the Music Perception and Cognition Lab (MPCL). Kit is currently working as a research assistant for the Haute École de musique de Genève (HEM) as part of the International Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration Project. His recent compositions commissions include a choral piece for the Schulich Singers and a monodrama for the Opera from Scratch workshop in Halifax. He is currently composing a short opera for three voices and chamber ensemble for FAWN Chamber Creative in Toronto, Canada.

As a composer, Kit is inspired by the interaction and relationship between timbre and expressivity in music, and particularly in the use of orchestration to enhance the dramaturgy of a composition. His doctoral thesis and research creation project(s) will identity and explore the acoustic phenomena created through the combination of voice and orchestra, highlighting how composers can exploit our innate perceptual mapping of vocal and instrumental timbres to build dramatic and expressive qualities into their music. These topics represent some of the composition and research considerations that fuel his passion for learning and for exploring composition at an advanced level.

Overture: Voyaging through Time's dark branches to the lucid stars

Kit Vaughan Soden

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