Celluloid Resurrection – Dancing Songs

piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello, piano (video score)

for Britten Pears Young Artist Programme

2024

18 mins


Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven will make films. . . . All legends, all mythologies, and all myths, all the founders of religions, indeed, all religions, . . . await their celluloid resurrection, and the heroes are pressing at the gates

Abel Gance (2008, 22)
from The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin

The House of Bedlam (Kathryn Williams, Carl Raven, Stephanie Tress), Angharad Davies, Sam Longbottom

Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, June 2024


score (PDF)