On Thursday 14 July Angela Elizabeth Slater’s new work Through the Fading Hour, Concerto for viola will receive its World Premiere at Queen Elizabeth’s Hall, London. Performed by a chamber orchestra of musicians from the LPO and its orchestral development scheme Foyle Future Firsts with the LPO’s co-prinicipal viola Richard Waters, Through the Fading Hour was written as part of the LPO’s Young Composers scheme 2021/22 and will be premiered alongside four other eight-minute concertos by Rafael Marino Arcaro, Conrad Asman, Alex Ho and Yunho Jeong in the concert entitled this year ‘Solo.Tutti’.
Angela tells us about the work –
Through the fading hour explores the light qualities and colours that we see during the twilight hours, with the onsetting of darkness and the fading of light. We might also see this moment as the twilight hour of the Earth, at least with our presence on it, as the realities of climate change become increasingly evident. The piece emerged from one of my own poems:
Through the fading hour
Whispers morph and mould
A flickering light gives one last breath
Before being blown into the ether
Tags: Angela Elizabeth Slater, LPO Foyle Future Firsts, LPO Young Composers, Richard Waters