Jubal’s Been Quiet, But Busy…!
Jubal has been pretty silent for a while, but not for lack of activity…or questions or thoughts, of course!
I’ve been writing a new work to be performed this coming fall…”Jubilate! An Ancient-Future Concert Mass.” In looking at some of the standard mass lyrics, I find myself asking some questions. Why is the “Sanctus” a combination of scriptures from Isaiah 6 and the Palm Sunday narrative? There is no obvious reason they go together, but that’s the way it is. Another question…why are all of the texts commonly in Latin, except for the “Kyrie,”which is in Greek? I wonder who decided that? Such life-changing questions, I know!
Anyway, if you’d like to attend the concert you can find more details at the following link. It’s going to be pretty interesting!
Look on the right side under Upcoming Events at http://www.brehmcenter.com/
Jubal, you are getting kind of tired of writing little black dots on the black lines and white spaces, aren’t you?
September 14th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Got the email announcement today. Interesting line — “It will be performed along with a precisely recorded soundtrack that would not be possible to create live.” Is this ala Stockhausen, or just orchestral that you can’t afford to bring in for the event? Means conducting to the track … ugh .. and also that those who want to perform the work will also have to use the track with live? Quartet and oboe must tune to the track? Very intriguing …
Looking forward to it!! Perhaps you can share more detail about how this will work. Tom
November 19th, 2009 at 7:10 am
HI Tom
Sorry I didn’t see this message ahead of time. I went to South Africa right after the concert and just got back…trying to catch up. Your comment somehow got held up in the system as well and I had to manually post it. Anyway, I hope you were able to come to the concert and have some of your questions answered.
Thanks, Ed