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Northern Lights (Latvian Folksong)
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Northern Lights (Latvian Folksong) for Soprano Solo, SSAATTBB Choir, Power Chimes and Water-tuned Glasses by Eriks Esenvalds SSAATTBB - Sheet Music

By Eriks Esenvalds
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Northern Lights (Latvian Folksong) by Eriks Esenvalds SSAATTBB - Sheet Music
Choir Secular SSolo.SSAATTBB--power chimes--water-tuned glasses (SATB choir)

SKU: PE.MB1366

For Soprano Solo, SSAATTBB Choir, Power Chimes and Water-tuned Glasses. Composed by Eriks Esenvalds. Arranged by Eriks Esenvalds. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Musica Baltica. Secular. Choral Octavo. 16 pages. Duration 00:05:30. Musica Baltica #98-MB1366. Published by Musica Baltica (PE.MB1366).

ISBN 9790697952980. English.

The ecstatic collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere known as the aurora borealis is the subject of Northern Lights, commissioned in 2012 by the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Latvian folklore tells that the northern lights are the restless spirits of fallen warriors, still fighting their battles in the sky. Ešenvalds combines a Latvian folksong, sung by a solo tenor, with less fearful, and factual, observations of the northern lights by two nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, Charles Francis Hall and Fridtjof Nansen. In a lilting triple-time meter throughout, with tuned glasses played by the singers adding an unearthly aura at salient points, the music is full of wonder, with an especially dramatic moment of revelation early on.

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