I have been invited by duo Ana Beard Fernandez (voice) and Will Ozard (clarinets) to participate in a collaborative composition project setting T.S. Eliot’s ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’, from his collection Prufrock and Other Observations (1917).
12 York-based composers have each been given an extract of the text, with the brief of setting it in 2-4 minutes of music as they see fit. The lines I have been given are near the end. I am very excited to be working with this young and very talented duo, and seeing what theatre will come of a dozen juxtaposed musical styles…
The collected pieces will be performed by Ana and Will at the University of York on 6th November 2012. Expect the unexpected and the unpredictable!