HeyJaredNotes on Flying
Soprano Juliet Fraser writes words about weird music (specifically weird classical music) and the weird business of performing it.
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Who’d have thought (opens the original)
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I have been singing Morton Feldman’s Three Voices for over a decade now, and this evening I will perform it for the twenty-fifth time. I didn’t expect to become associated with this music. Feldman is a bitch to sing and I didn’t really know what I was doing when I took this piece on: that ignorance made me mad enough to dive on in and then I realised I was too heavily invested to back out. Three Voices is either a test or a trap. Or both… Because the three voices must be of the one singer, you h
In search of with-ness (opens the original)
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I crouch beside the river. Sing! I’ve been with this river for a few days and I’m desperate for something magical to happen. I have been walking beside it, hearing about its flows through time and place; I have been on it in a boat, wielding my paddle first frantically and then proudly; I have been in it, legs trembling and courage buckling under the force of its pull. I have been listening, listening, listening. But beside it now, I am again compelled to silence. Sing! It’s becoming a problem.H
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