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Mcloskey / Nally- Zealot Canticles

SKU: 726708698423
¥119.00
the album cover for Mcloskey / Nally - Zealot Canticles
the album cover for Mcloskey / Nally - Zealot Canticles

Lansing McLoskey's Zealot Canticles is based on Wole Soyinka's Twelve Canticles for the Zealot (2002)- a strangely beautiful and terrifying look into the minds of fanatics. Seven of these poems form the bulk of the libretto, interwoven with excerpts from Soyinka's plays, interviews, lectures and speeches; they reflect his upbringing in an environment of tolerance and condemn the current climate of intolerance, bigotry, and violence. The result is a concert-length choral 'oratorio' for clarinet, string quartet, and 24-voice choir, commissioned and performed by The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally and winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Soyinka's texts and McLoskey's responses are universal pleas for peace and tolerance, yet they force us to look into the mirror and recognize the thin line between devotion and intolerance, zealotry and radicalism- themes that dominate our public discourse every day. Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian poet, playwright, novelist, and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African American recipient of the award. Throughout the set of canticles, Soyinka makes universal pleas for peace from multiple languages and religious cultures. Seven of these poems form the core of the libretto of Zealot Canticles. Interwoven with these poems are excerpts from Soyinka's book The Man Died, his play Madmen and Specialists, and interviews, lectures, and speeches reflecting on his upbringing in an environment of tolerance, and condemning the current climate of intolerance, bigotry and violence.

Tracklist:

  1. Zealot Canticles: No. 1, Renunciation. Preludium
  2. Zealot Canticles: No. 2, Let's Start
  3. Zealot Canticles: No. 3, Perched On Church Steeple
  4. Zealot Canticles: No. 4, I Intend To Be Blunt
  5. Zealot Canticles: No. 5, I Shall Ram Pebbles In My Mouth
  6. Zealot Canticles: No. 6, Armed With Book And Beard
  7. Zealot Canticles: No. 7, The Writing On The Wall
  8. Zealot Canticles: No. 8, I Shall Place Nettles On My Tongue
  9. Zealot Canticles: No. 9, Seek Havens Of Peace On Ocean Floors
  10. Zealot Canticles: No. 10, The Dog In Dogma
  11. Zealot Canticles: No. 11, I Am Right, You Are Dead
  12. Zealot Canticles: No. 12, I Shall Place Werepe On Every Tongue
  13. Zealot Canticles: No. 13, I Turned To Stone
  14. Zealot Canticles: No. 14, The Man Dies
  15. Zealot Canticles: No. 15, I'll Drop Ratsbane On My Tongue
  16. Zealot Canticles: No. 16, The 13th Canticle
  17. Zealot Canticles: No. 17, Where Are All The Flowers Gone?
  18. Zealot Canticles: No. 18, Bi O Ti Wa
  19. Zealot Canticles: No. 19, Bi O Ti Wa L'atete Kose
  20. Zealot Canticles: No. 20, On Fire Today
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Mcloskey / Nally- Zealot Canticles

SKU: 726708698423
¥119.00

Release Date: 09.28.2018

 
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Lansing McLoskey's Zealot Canticles is based on Wole Soyinka's Twelve Canticles for the Zealot (2002)- a strangely beautiful and terrifying look into the minds of fanatics. Seven of these poems form the bulk of the libretto, interwoven with excerpts from Soyinka's plays, interviews, lectures and speeches; they reflect his upbringing in an environment of tolerance and condemn the current climate of intolerance, bigotry, and violence. The result is a concert-length choral 'oratorio' for clarinet, string quartet, and 24-voice choir, commissioned and performed by The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally and winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Soyinka's texts and McLoskey's responses are universal pleas for peace and tolerance, yet they force us to look into the mirror and recognize the thin line between devotion and intolerance, zealotry and radicalism- themes that dominate our public discourse every day. Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian poet, playwright, novelist, and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African American recipient of the award. Throughout the set of canticles, Soyinka makes universal pleas for peace from multiple languages and religious cultures. Seven of these poems form the core of the libretto of Zealot Canticles. Interwoven with these poems are excerpts from Soyinka's book The Man Died, his play Madmen and Specialists, and interviews, lectures, and speeches reflecting on his upbringing in an environment of tolerance, and condemning the current climate of intolerance, bigotry and violence.

Tracklist:

  1. Zealot Canticles: No. 1, Renunciation. Preludium
  2. Zealot Canticles: No. 2, Let's Start
  3. Zealot Canticles: No. 3, Perched On Church Steeple
  4. Zealot Canticles: No. 4, I Intend To Be Blunt
  5. Zealot Canticles: No. 5, I Shall Ram Pebbles In My Mouth
  6. Zealot Canticles: No. 6, Armed With Book And Beard
  7. Zealot Canticles: No. 7, The Writing On The Wall
  8. Zealot Canticles: No. 8, I Shall Place Nettles On My Tongue
  9. Zealot Canticles: No. 9, Seek Havens Of Peace On Ocean Floors
  10. Zealot Canticles: No. 10, The Dog In Dogma
  11. Zealot Canticles: No. 11, I Am Right, You Are Dead
  12. Zealot Canticles: No. 12, I Shall Place Werepe On Every Tongue
  13. Zealot Canticles: No. 13, I Turned To Stone
  14. Zealot Canticles: No. 14, The Man Dies
  15. Zealot Canticles: No. 15, I'll Drop Ratsbane On My Tongue
  16. Zealot Canticles: No. 16, The 13th Canticle
  17. Zealot Canticles: No. 17, Where Are All The Flowers Gone?
  18. Zealot Canticles: No. 18, Bi O Ti Wa
  19. Zealot Canticles: No. 19, Bi O Ti Wa L'atete Kose
  20. Zealot Canticles: No. 20, On Fire Today