Prayer Before Birth
Creme, Tara
About the work
The piece is a setting of a poem by Louis MacNeice of the same title. It was originally written for a Forum London Composers’ Group workshop with Deirdre Gribbin, and was performed at a Forum concert in September 1999, by COMA Voices, conducted by Dominic McGonigal
Technical notes
The pieces requires the performers to whisper, sing, chant, and shout parts of the text, and accompanying vocalising.