GREAT CAMELOT

GREAT CAMELOT
3 Songs for Tenor and Piano
on Poems by Sameer Dahar

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8850

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Description
GREAT CAMELOT was commissioned by Lynx Project for its 2017 Autism Advocacy Project, which sets the words of individuals with autism to music in newly commissioned art songs. The poet of this song cycle, Sameer Dahar, is a young, autistic man who is primarily non-verbal, but communicates by pointing to letters on a board in a process called the Rapid Prompting Method. Using this method, Sameer created beautiful poems that inspired composer Juliana Hall to create a song cycle for tenor and piano based on Sameer’s work. The texts of these songs possess mystery and deeply beautiful images, as imagined through Sameer’s experience of living with autism.

Text
1 – Innocence
2 – Traversing Great Solitude
3 – Your Music Emerges

Vocal Range
C 4  :  G 5

Duration
6′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
A 4  :  E 5

Commission
Lynx Project

First Performance
October 27, 2017
Lynx Project
Autism Advocacy Project
Mason Middle School
Mason, Ohio

Year of Composition
2016

First Performers
Steven Humes, tenor
Florence Mak, piano

Listen
no recording is available at this time