The Blue Hour
A Far Cry & Shara Nova
Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
Boston-based A Far Cry – who commissioned the work – handles the ever-changing moods with poise, creating a sense of otherworldliness in movements like ‘A memory’, where distorted harmonies...
The Blue Hour
A Far Cry & Shara Nova
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Awards:
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
-
Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
Boston-based A Far Cry – who commissioned the work – handles the ever-changing moods with poise, creating a sense of otherworldliness in movements like ‘A memory’, where distorted harmonies...
About
The Blue Hour, a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider; a unique joint vision among a female collective. The cycle was commissioned by, and is performed with, the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry.
Contents and tracklist
- The Blue Hour
Awards and reviews
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Opus Klassik Awards2023Nominated - Composer of the Year
December 2022
Boston-based A Far Cry – who commissioned the work – handles the ever-changing moods with poise, creating a sense of otherworldliness in movements like ‘A memory’, where distorted harmonies i l luminate surrealist lyrics (‘a cup of sleep’), and trepidation in ‘Yet the women’.
