Programme Notes
Nathan James Dearden - we ARE determined
Nathan James Dearden (b. 1992) - we ARE determined (2018)
for Carla Rees
after Ethel Smyth
Duration 8’00 approx.
Premiere: Carla Rees (bass flute), Sophie Mercer (narrator) & Carwyn Jones (drones: cello), Emily Wilding Davison Building Exhibition Space, Royal Holloway University of London, 9 March 2018
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for Carla Rees
after Ethel Smyth
Incorporating excerpts from Emily Wilding Davison’s diary during her incarceration at Holloway Prison (London, UK) in 1912, this work acts as a musical postcard from a single moment of one’s immoral persecution and a time of collective empowerment.
Written for Suffrage 2018 Events and kindly supported by VOTE100 at Royal Holloway.
Written for Suffrage 2018 Events and kindly supported by VOTE100 at Royal Holloway.
Duration 8’00 approx.
Premiere: Carla Rees (bass flute), Sophie Mercer (narrator) & Carwyn Jones (drones: cello), Emily Wilding Davison Building Exhibition Space, Royal Holloway University of London, 9 March 2018
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