NIGHT THOUGHTS ARE NOT SO DARK IN JUNE
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Title: Night thoughts are not so dark in June
Year Completed: 2024
Duration: 3 mins
Instrumentation: solo piano with a little bit of gentle singing
Credits: Commissioned by Jennifer King
Premiere: World premiere by Jennifer King, September 20, 2024 - Lilian Piercey Concert Hall, Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, Halifax, NS
Program note:
Whether moments of sleeplessness are momentary or hours-long, nighttime thoughts can wander into dark places. Repetitive, heavy, slow thoughts. Starting a young family in the years of COVID-19, climate crises, and the wars in Ukraine and Israel+Palestine give plenty of material for dark thoughts.
No matter the thoughts, I've found two things that help lead the night-mind thought-wandering into light places, hopeful places, with fast shooting shining thoughts! One is the actual lightness of summer nights - my Yellowknife windows never get dark around the summer solstice. And the other is when a loved one is nearby.
Night thoughts are not so dark in June.
Night thoughts are not so dark with you.