Three Meditations on Light
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Harp
- Composed
- 2011
- Duration
- 16'30''
- Publisher
- Canadian Music Centre (unpublished; printed by CMC)
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About this piece
Three Meditations on Light is a sixteen-minute, three-movement duo for cello and harp. Its movements are 'The birds breathe the morning light', 'Bioluminescence (wine-dark sea)' and 'Absence of light – gradual reawakening'. It was commissioned by and dedicated to Couloir (harpist Heidi Krutzen and cellist Ariel Barnes) with support from the BC Arts Council. Couloir premiered it in Vancouver in October 2012 at Music on Main's Modulus Festival, the duo's official launch. Morlock's note links it to ideas of the sun, such as Sol Invictus and the Egyptian myth of Ra fighting through the night to rise again, and to the idea that each sunrise is a small miracle. Couloir recorded it on their album Wine Dark Sea (Ravello Records, 2013).
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