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McLoskey: Zealot Canticles / Nally, The Crossing
Innova Recordings

McLoskey: Zealot Canticles / Nally, The Crossing

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Details

Composer
MCLOSKEY, LANSING
Artist
The Crossing, Nally
Format
CD
Label
Innova Recordings
Released
Sep 28, 2018
Catalog #
INN984
UPC
726708698423

About

Lansing McLoskey’s Zealot Canticles is based on Wole Soyinka’s Twelve Canticles for the Zealot (2002)- a strangely beautiful and terrifying look into the minds of fanatics. Seven of these poems form the bulk of the libretto, interwoven with excerpts from Soyinka’s plays, interviews, lectures and speeches; they reflect his upbringing in an environment of tolerance and condemn the current climate of intolerance, bigotry, and violence. The result is a concert-length choral ‘oratorio’ for clarinet, string quartet, and 24-voice choir, commissioned and performed by The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally and winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Soyinka’s texts and McLoskey’s responses are universal pleas for peace and tolerance, yet they force us to look into the mirror and recognize the thin line between devotion and intolerance, zealotry and radicalism- themes that dominate our public discourse every day. Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian poet, playwright, novelist, and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African American recipient of the award. Throughout the set of canticles, Soyinka makes universal pleas for peace from multiple languages and religious cultures. Seven of these poems form the core of the libretto of Zealot Canticles. Interwoven with these poems are excerpts from Soyinka’s book The Man Died, his play Madmen and Specialists, and interviews, lectures, and speeches reflecting on his upbringing in an environment of tolerance, and condemning the current climate of intolerance, bigotry and violence.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 Renunciation: Preludium (Chorus) 03:31
    Track
    1
    Title
    Renunciation: Preludium (Chorus)
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  2. 2 Let's start (Soprano, Baritone) 03:53
    Track
    2
    Title
    Let's start (Soprano, Baritone)
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Rebecca Siler, Elijah Blaisdell
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  3. 3 Perched on church steeple (Chorus) 03:49
    Track
    3
    Title
    Perched on church steeple (Chorus)
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  4. 4 I intend to be blunt (Baritone) 03:50
    Track
    4
    Title
    I intend to be blunt (Baritone)
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Elijah Blaisdell
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  5. 5 I shall ram pebbles in my mouth (Chorus) 02:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    I shall ram pebbles in my mouth (Chorus)
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  6. 6 Armed with book and beard (Chorus) 03:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    Armed with book and beard (Chorus)
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  7. 7 The writing on the wall (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano) 04:23
    Track
    7
    Title
    The writing on the wall (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano)
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Rebecca Siler, Maren Montalbano-Brehm
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  8. 8 I shall place nettles on my tongue (Chorus) 02:10
    Track
    8
    Title
    I shall place nettles on my tongue (Chorus)
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  9. 9 Seek havens of peace on ocean floors (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone) 08:05
    Track
    9
    Title
    Seek havens of peace on ocean floors (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone)
    Duration
    08:05
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Elijah Blaisdell
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  10. 10 The dog in dogma (Soprano) 02:13
    Track
    10
    Title
    The dog in dogma (Soprano)
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Rebecca Siler
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  11. 11 I am right, you are dead (Baritone) 06:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    I am right, you are dead (Baritone)
    Duration
    06:03
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Elijah Blaisdell
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  12. 12 I shall place werepe on every tongue (Chorus) 02:24
    Track
    12
    Title
    I shall place werepe on every tongue (Chorus)
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Maren Montalbano-Brehm
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  13. 13 I turned to stone (Mezzo-Soprano, Chorus) 05:13
    Track
    13
    Title
    I turned to stone (Mezzo-Soprano, Chorus)
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  14. 14 The man dies 02:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    The man dies
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  15. 15 I'll drop ratsbane on my tongue (Chorus) 02:52
    Track
    15
    Title
    I'll drop ratsbane on my tongue (Chorus)
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  16. 16 The 13th Canticle (Chorus) 02:59
    Track
    16
    Title
    The 13th Canticle (Chorus)
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  17. 17 Where are all the flowers gone? (Soprano) 04:24
    Track
    17
    Title
    Where are all the flowers gone? (Soprano)
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Rebecca Siler
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  18. 18 Bi o ti wa (Baritone, Chorus) 06:52
    Track
    18
    Title
    Bi o ti wa (Baritone, Chorus)
    Duration
    06:52
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Performer
    Elijah Blaisdell
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  19. 19 Bi o ti wa l'atete kose 02:21
    Track
    19
    Title
    Bi o ti wa l'atete kose
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Conductor
    Donald Nally
  20. 20 On fire today (Chorus) 06:17
    Track
    20
    Title
    On fire today (Chorus)
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Lansing McLoskey
    Ensemble
    The Crossing
    Conductor
    Donald Nally