Lux aeterna - Gregory Lee Newsome

GREGORY LEE NEWSOME
Lux aeterna
for chamber choir
Gregory Lee Newsome
Lux aeterna
Duration
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Premiere
This piece was premiered by Phoenix Chamber Choir, conductor Ramona Luengen, on
November 17th, 2001 at Holy Rosary Cathedral, Vancouver, on the programme Luminé.
Programme Note
Via the merging of poetics and structure I hope to create symbolic emotional states in
music that uncover meaning in unknowable aspects of human existence. In Lux aeterna
an eternal, calmly ecstatic moment is symbolized by a single sonorous object that
eventually yields significant self-contrast prior to a new understanding.
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