CAROL J JONES | COMPOSER
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one more breath
Commissioned by Deutscher Chor London as part of CoronaCommissions 
Premiere 31 October 2021
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one more breath was written for choir and was commissioned as part of the Deutscher Chor London CoronaCommissions. The text is based on a letter by the miner Jacob Vowell (1866-1902) who died in the Fraterville Mining disaster, the largest mining disaster to date in Tennessee. In what became his last letter he wrote about his hopes for his family he knew he would never see again and the pain of both time and air slipping away. The basses emerge from a chorus of whispered voices gasping for breath. The piece has a peaceful, almost hypnotic quality, only being interrupted by the marking of time passing.
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  • About
  • Music
    • Orchestra >
      • the light thief
      • Songs from the Stars
    • Chamber >
      • the secret world of plants
      • chrysalis
      • aurora borealis
      • the waggle dance
      • the singing tree
      • the jellyfish blues
      • dances to accra
      • LUMEN
      • from Earth to Juno
      • norholmen
      • bulawayo railway
      • neuron
    • Solo >
      • selkie
      • in the shadows
      • higgs
      • variation for fenella
      • little one
      • rainfall
      • a note from the blue
      • the butterfly effect
      • gravity
    • Choral & Vocal >
      • eight maids a-milking
      • one more breath
      • elegy
      • praise ye the lord
      • here dead lie we
      • if i join up the dots in the stars
      • it happened to me
      • we are for one, we are for all
      • all shall be well
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    • Diary Archive
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