DETAILS
kanata – for large choir (SSAATTBB)
Winner of the distinguished 2024 Azrieli Prize for Canadian Music!
Duration: 16 minutes
Composer: Jordan Nobles

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“For Nobles, the sound of the words is more important than the words themselves. The final product is, simply, beautiful.” – Classical Music UK

PROGRAM NOTE
kanata finds its inspiration in the majesty of Canada’s vast and diverse landscape: from the breezy shores of the composer’s home on the Pacific coast to the unforgiving ruggedness of Cape Spear, the most easterly point in North America. kanata, without the use of language, explores the universality of our emotional connection with the natural world and the sense of awe that fills us when experiencing its grandeur. In the piece’s final section, Epilogue: Home, the text to be sung is personal and will be different for each singer. In his note to the chorus, the composer’s instruction states: “You should sing the name of a place (or places) that you think of as ‘home.’ Whether it is where you live now, where you were born, where you grew up, somewhere else, or all the above. In whatever language makes sense to you.” 

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