Whitbourn, James - Lux In Tenebris

Lux In Tenebris from Luminosity. For SATB choir, Viola, Tanpura, Tam-Tam, and dance theatre.

Luminosity is a multi-media work, commissioned by the conductor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College for theWestminsterWilliamson Voices, the women of the Westminster Schola Cantorum, the Blair Academy Singers (conductor, William Hammer) and the black-light dance company Archedream, for performance in Phildephia Cathedral duringApril2008.

The text, compiled and edited by the composer, centres on the transcendent beauty of creation expressed by luminaries down the ages. Texts are taken from the writings of St John, St Teresa of Avila, Ryonen,StAugustine, Julian of Norwich, and St Isaac of Nineveh.

Scoring

SATB (with division)
Viola
Tanpura
Tam-Tam
Organ