Large ensemble & choral

Francesca Le Lohe · Forgotten Voices - for TENSO Young Composers workshop

Developed for the TENSO Days Young Composers Workshop 2014. as part of the "From Poetry to Music 1914-1918" project. The recording is of the first draft in workshop by the DR VokalEnsemblet. The texts are by Canadian, Jamaican and Indian soldiers, and an Australian woman, all written during WW1.

Workshops: TENSO Days Young Composers Workshop: Round 1 Mechelen, Belgium (May 2014) and Copenhagen, Denmark: Round 2 (November 2014). Performed by DR VokalEnsemblet.

Inspired by the small sculpture works of Anish Kapoor from the 1980’s, in particular To reflect an Intimate Part of the Red (1981) and Red in the Centre (1982). 
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See also

THE鍵KEY (2018-2019)
Site-specific, Anglo-Japanese opera
Instrumentation: 3 voices (sop, mez, ten/bar), dancer, shakuhachi, sho, Japanese perc, biwa, vln, vc, db, cl
Major performances: Nakacho House, Tokyo (2018), Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier, Tokyo (2019) 10 Tollgate Drive, Tête-à-Tête: The Opera Festival, London (2019)