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The Black River

text from "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" by Jules Verne
for soprano and organ
soprano and organ
Product number: ED 12462
Edition: Score
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This piece is one of a series of works that take texts or imagery from the work of Jules Verne. Here the text is taken from 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, a section in which Professor Aronnax describes the scene outside the Nautilus where countless varieties of sea-creatures escort the submarine along the current of the mysterious underwater Black River.

Coincidentally the first work that I wrote using Verne as a source, the cantata Effarene (1984), sets an earlier portion of the same chapter for its closing movement and I find the objectivity and invention of Verne's language a constant stimulus. As Raymond Queneau said of Verne: "What a style! Nothing but nouns."

The piece was written for a concert given by the organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent at Leicester Cathedral in January 1991 and later recorded by him with soprano Sarah Leonard for ECM New Series in 1993.

Gavin Bryars.

More Information

Title:
The Black River
text from "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" by Jules Verne
for soprano and organ
Language:
English
Edition:
Score
Level of difficulty:
advanced
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1991
Duration:
15 ′
Voice:
Sopran
World Premiere:
January 22, 1991 · Leicester (UK)
Leicester Cathedral
Patricia Forbes, soprano; Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ

Technical Details

Product number:
ED 12462
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-1755-8
Weight:
0,11 kg
Pages:
20

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    October 31, 2021 | Moorestown, NJ (United States of America) , First Presbyterian Church of Moorestown
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    September 18, 2021 | Houston, TX (United States of America) , St. Luke's UMC
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    March 14, 2016 | Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , St Martin’s in the Bullring
    19:30
  • The Black River
    Muziek Biennale Niederrhein 2014
    September 28, 2014 | Kleve (Germany) , Stiftskirche
  • The Black River
    October 5, 2013 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , St Mary-at-Finchley Parish Church
    18:00
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