Aviva Swims
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Title: Aviva Swims
Year Completed: 2020
Duration: 5 mins
Instrumentation: SSAA Treble Choir + single-line accompaniment (bass - instruments possible: piano, bass clarinet, double bass, electric bass, cello, keyboard with funky synth options, etc.)
Credits: Commissioned by the Aeolian Singers, with thanks to conductor Heather Fraser.
Premiere: Premiere by the Aeolian Singers, June 6 2020 (CANCELLED - reschedule date tbd), Halifax NS.
Program Notes:
A first impression is powerful - it sticks with us and is the thing that is compared to every next encounter.
After watching my young child meet new people in certain circumstances, and then re-meet them in a new place, I wrote this text. This setting of the text for treble choir plays with slight variations and transpositions to suit shifting reflections of Aviva.
Aviva swims.
Aviva will always be swimming.
This is the first impression, the mold that will
be gently broken with each new meeting,
each new set of earrings.
Aviva waits,
Aviva cries,
Aviva smiles.