Oxen of the Sun (SATB divisi) - Eoghan Desmond $2.75
Quoting a fragment of text from Chapter 14 of James Joyce’s Ulysses, composer Eoghan Desmond portrays childbirth as a divine mystery. The greeting fanfare of a solo horn in tandem with the choir depicts a mystical incantation by doctors in Dublin’s Holles Street Maternity Hospital – ‘Deshil Holles Eamus/clockwise we go’, in other words, ‘while we wait for the mother to give birth, we will proceed in a clockwise manner’. The birthing begins with active music on the words ‘send us bright one, light one, Hornhorn, quickening and wombfruit’. This new choral series features on the recordings Invisible Stars Perpetual Twilight and Be all Merry Please note that this piece may be downloaded in PDF format following purchase.
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