Many Waters by Nicolas Bizub

NICOLAS BIZUB

MANY WATERS FOR SSSSAAAA AND SSAA SOLOISTS

2014

NICOLAS BIZUB

MANY WATERS FOR SSSSAAAA AND SSAA SOLOISTS

2014

MANY WATERS Many Waters text excerpted from the Song of Solomon (KJV): Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Song of Solomon 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. Song of Solomon 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

PROGRAM NOTES: Commissioned by Phillip Swan and Cantala, Many Waters is a meditation on the omnipotence of love. Excerpts from the Song of Solomon remind us of love’s insatiable and inextinguishable nature. Slip-sliding harmonies and fluid meter changes shape the texture’s ebb and flow. Divisi women’s chorus juxtaposed with solo women’s quartet capture love’s existence as both interior and extrinsic. Harmonic dissonance builds until the final iteration of the chorus, where the full divisi blossoms into the only two triads of the composition.

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Solo S1

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