Aug 30, 2017 By: yunews
Over the last decade Dr. David Glaser, professor of music, has grown increasingly interested in music of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras composed for small vocal ensembles, often with a handful of instruments. This has inspired him to compose a work for chorus, two percussionists and organ titled 鈥淒e Rerum Natura,鈥 from the poem by the Roman poet Lucretius.
In the work, the chorus does not sing the words of the poem. Instead, using a technique called 鈥渧ocalise,鈥 Glaser鈥檚 singers voice syllables and sounds that blend or contrast with the percussion, thus 鈥渓iberating the voice from the constraints of the text [which] allows for a freer, and perhaps more abstract and 鈥榠nstrumental鈥 handling of the voices.鈥
鈥淒e Rerum Natura鈥漺ill have its premiere in Finland this November.
For performances of Glaser鈥檚 work, click and .
