Grandmother moon (Daley) - from SIGCD642 - Hyperion Records

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Track(s) taken from SIGCD642

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Grandmother moon

First line:

She looks into and beyond my soul

composer

Eleanor Daley (b1955)

author of text

Mary Louise Martin (b1956)

Pembroke College Choir Cambridge, Anna Lapwood (conductor)

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Recording details: October 2019
St George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: September 2020
Total duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

Cover artwork: Painting. Jaanika Talts

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Introduction
English

Grandmother moon is a setting of a mystical text by Mary Louise Martin, a Mi’kmaq poet who lives on a small island in British Columbia. Her words describe the serene beauty and tranquillity of a full moon on a clear night, and the poem closes with the word ‘we’lalin’, an expression of gratitude in the Mi’kmaq language. Eleanor Daley paints a vivid musical landscape, using arch-shaped musical phrases which evoke the soft dappling of moonlight on murmuring waters.

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Grandmother moon

Pembroke College Choir Cambridge, Anna Lapwood (conductor)

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Introduction

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