9790065141107 My mother the earth demo

Frank Havrøy

My mother the earth

for choir a cappella

Det må ikke kopieres fra denne bok i strid med Åndsverkloven, eller i strid med avtaler om kopiering inngått med Kopinor, Interesseorganisasjon for rettighetshavere til åndsverk. Kopiering i strid med lov eller avtale kan medføre erstatningskrav og inndragning, og kan straffes med bøter og fengsel.

N.M.O. 13746

ISMN 979-0-065-14110-7

Forsidefoto: Per-Morten Halvorsen Grafisk produksjon/trykk: Oslo Sats, Repro & Montasje A/S. www.osrm.dinstudio.no

Total durata: approx. 18 mins

To Skedsmo Voices and Ingrid Danbolt with support from Furestiftelsen 2014

Reading I (text: Rachel Carson, from “Silent Spring”) .

1. What I am I must become (text: Native American) .

Reading II (text: Rachel Carson, from “Silent Spring”)

2. My feet touch earth and dance (text: Native American) . .

Reading III (text: Rachel Carson, from “Silent Spring”) .

3. My mother the earth (text: Native American) .

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READER 1

THE HISTORY OF LIFE on earth has been a history of interac�on between living things and their surroundings To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegeta�on and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly �me, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been rela�vely slight. Only within the moment of �me represented by the present century has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world

READER 2

There was a strange stillness.

Song number 1,2, and 3 can be perfor med as individual works. It is also possible to perfor m the whole work without the read par ts in between

1. What I am I must become

READER 3

AS MAN PROCEEDS toward his announced goal of the conquest of nature, he has wri�en a depressing record of destruc�on, directed not only against the earth he inhabits but against the life that shares it with him

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READER 4

TO HAVE RISKED so much in our eﬀorts to mold nature to our sa�sfac�on and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed be the ﬁnal irony. Yet this, it seems, is our s itua�on. The truth, seldom men�oned but there for anyone to see, is that nature is not so easily molded

*

READER 5

There was a strange s�llness. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the ﬁelds and woods and marsh. * = Bar 1-2 in number 2 "My feet "

2. My feet touch ear th and dance

Shouted: My feet touch ear th and dance to the dr ums which are in my hear t as well

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Shouted: If my feet do not touch the ear th the dance will not be good.

Shouted: And the music in my hear t will all be still

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ear th and dance

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And the mu sic - in my hear t will all be still

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READER 6

WE STAND NOW where two roads diverge.

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The road we have long been travelling is decep�vely easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

The other fork of the road the one ‘less traveled by ’ oﬀers our last, our only chance to reach a des�na�on that assures the preser va�on of our earth.

READER 7

There was a strange s�llness. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the ﬁelds and woods and marsh. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollina�on and there would be no fruit.

READER 8

There was a strange s�llness

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* = hit tuning fork carefully together Fir st ever y second, after 6 times, ever y 2 seconds, after 2 times, ever y 3 seconds, then with even longer inter vals. B, T, A1, A2 and S2 stops one by one until only S1 is left, sometime around READER 8

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