Beyond the Erupting Skies
Silver Angels Sing Among the Gold Stars
Beyond the Erupting Skies
Silver Angels Sing Among the Gold Stars
Silver Angels Sing Among the Gold Stars
Alice Ping Yee Ho, composer
Teresa Suen-Campbell, harpThe title of this work is inspired by the legacy and tragic disappearance of aviatrix Amelia Earhart – the first woman aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Teresa Suen-Campbell, harpThe title of this work is inspired by the legacy and tragic disappearance of aviatrix Amelia Earhart – the first woman aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Conceived as an eleven-minute single movement composition for solo harp with electronics, this work evokes an aviatrix’s last but most fantastic journey: traversing the boundless sky with haunting landscapes below where fear, loneliness, peace, and beauty intermingle into an ultimate place of depth with enormous reverberations.
The choice of solo harp is a symbolic representation of a female voice, used in a colouristic and dramatic manner to depict Earhart’s journey.
The electronic accompaniment is a combination of multiple layers of engineering and synthesized acoustic sounds, a polyphonic lave at time textural, at times rhythmic, foreshadowing and enhancing the scenario and emotions of the character.