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Human Rights' Oratorio

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Human Rights' Oratorio

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    • Home
    • Promo video
    • Recordings
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    • Scores (section 2)
    • Audio computer simulation
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    • Bio
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    • Thanks for helping out!
    • Full audio rendition
  • Home
  • Promo video
  • Recordings
  • Scores (section 1)
  • Scores (section 2)
  • Audio computer simulation
  • Contact
  • Bio
  • Events
  • Notes for performers
  • Thanks for helping out!
  • Full audio rendition

4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra

4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra






Vocalizing what is, arguably, the most important text of the modern era

4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra

4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra4 soloists (SMTB), Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra






Vocalizing what is, arguably, the most important text of the modern era

♪ Article 1 ♫

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.  

♪♫ Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion... 

♫ ♪ Article 28 ♫

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

The watercolour choir above is painted in aquarelle by María Amparo López

There's not a rhyme, neither rhythm nor poetic structure....

How do you put such texts to music? Well...

... it had never been done before. First I wrote melodies for all the 30 articles (took some years). Subsequently reworking those melodies into a musically coherent structure, which holds together and yet provides enough variation to keep the listeners interest. Fun, captivating, enduring, and especially singable. 


"I am so happy to know about your music! A breath of fresh air."


Maestro Suzanne Rome, Virginia (U.S.A.) conductor, quoted in May 2022 


Downloads

  • Below the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's a wonderful text, well worth reading 😉
  • Also below the document "Oratorio and microcosm". It is a 3-page description / introduction to the composition and to my thinking. I can give a lecture, live or via the screen, to elaborate and explain in more detail. 
  • We've made a few demo-recordings which are available to listen to here. 
  • Further to those demos here is computer simulated audio. Or else contact us to get additional MIDI / demo-versions. 
  • Full scores of the two sections available on the first section and second section pages 
  • Each part has its own unique sound resulting from its constellation of performers. Only the first and the last part employs everyone. Each time the instruments and singers are chosen for a combination of musical reasons and to underscore the text.  

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 (doc)Download
Oratorio and microcosm, August 13th 2022 (pdf)Download

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