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Lann recently completed a large, spatial, commissioned work for the
International Choir Biennale in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
This new work is entitled
O Whispering Suns
and is scored for
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/voice solo),
Viktor Kopatchinsky (cymbalom solo), the Dutch Radio Choir and the
Latvian Radio Choir.
It is based on texts from the first poem in Walt Whitman's
collection "Leaves of Grass" (this poem was later titled Song of Myself),
and it was premiered in the Haarlem Philharmonie on July 2, 2011, under the direction of Kaspars Putnins, with choreography / movement advice from
Sanne van der Put.
To view a webcast of the performance (1 hour; please note sound is faint for singers in the back balcony for four minutes in first movement, 2'18" - 6'08")
please click here: www.youtube.com
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself
[excerpt, stanza 6]
. . . . . .
Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon
out of their mothers' laps,
And here you are the mothers' laps.
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(photo credit: Gerhard van Roon)
