VOICES is a musical space to reconnect with these inspiring principles.By Inge Kjemtrup | From the July-August 2022 issue of Strings magazine
While the past is fixed, the future is yet unwritten, and the declaration sets out an uplifting vision of a better and fairer world that is within our reach if we choose it. At such times it is easy to feel hopeless but, just as the problems of our world are of our own making, so the solutions can be. The recent brutal events in the US, leading to the tragic deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as countless other abuses around the world, are proof of that. The opening words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in 1948, are “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” These inspiring words are a guiding principle for the whole declaration but, looking around at the world we have made in the decades since they were written, it is clear that we have forgotten them. These readings are the aural landscape that this music flows through: they are the VOICES of the title. In addition to readings by a narrator, hundreds of readings of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights in dozens of languages have been sourced from all over the world. As the world has been turned upside down, so have the proportions of this orchestra. The orchestra is a radically reimagined ensemble called a “negative orchestra”.
VOICES is 56 minutes of music for orchestra, choir, electronics, solo soprano, solo violin and solo piano.
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