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LOOKING WEST
a new music theatre work by Julian Philips and Rebecca Hurst

Vaughan Williams' music has long been a source of inspiration for composer Julian Philips and writer Rebecca Hurst. This concert-theatre work sets out to use ideas of pilgrimage to unlock key themes that thread through RVW's life and work; a search for the numinous, for transcendence in landscape and place, for spiritual enrichment in the natural world, and the transformative power of music and art in both an individuial and communal sense. Looking West seeks a continuity with the central concerns of Vaughan Williams' legacy in an age of climate crisis and political instability. 

Rebecca Bottone soprano | Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo-soprano | Alexander Knox narrator
Nova Music Opera Ensemble | George Vass conductor

 Looking West is a co-commission from the Nova Music Trust and the Presteigne Festival
with generous funding from the RVW Trust and John S Cohen Foundation.

  

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