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Christus Apollo. Christus Apollo: Cantata Celebrating the Eighth Day of Creation and the Promise of the Ninth is a cantata in four movements for narrator, mezzo-soprano, choir, and orchestra, based on a text by the science fiction author Ray Bradbury and composed by the American composer Jerry Goldsmith. [1] [2] The piece was commissioned by ...
Aug 9, 2011 · But if one branches out to vocal music, then there is a piece that deserves to be better known than it is: a setting of Ray Bradbury’s poem/cantata “Christus Apollo” by Jerry Goldsmith, well ...
Jul 23, 2004 · by Jon Burlingame. Jerry Goldsmith, an Oscar and multiple Emmy winner and one of the most respected composers in film for more than 40 years, died Wednesday night, July 21, at his home in Beverly Hills, California, after a long battle with cancer. He was 75.
Composer Goldsmith dead at 75. This obituary was updated at 5:31 p.m. Jerry Goldsmith, an Oscar and multiple Emmy winner, and one of the most respected composers in film, died July 21 at his home ...
Add Goldsmith's composition and conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Voices Chorus and mezzo-soprano Eirian James. Connecting the four sections of the composition is narration by Hopkins done in his usual almost hypnotic voice and style. The complete title of the composition is: Christus Apollo: Cantata Celebrating the Eighth ...
Originally a sonnet penned by Bradbury after the Apollo 8 lunar orbit, the Christus Apollo cantata contains themes that leverage Bradbury’s trademark mixture of fantasy and fact. Musically, Jerry Goldsmith uses devices that one may find familiar. There’s a bit of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a little bit of Swimming to Cambodia monology ...
