Musical Category Soloist(s) and Orch./Ens. and/or Choir
Instrumentation (general) baritone and string quartet
Premiere
Date 2024/Oct/17
Performer(s)
Jonathan Eyers (baritone)
Sonnen Quartet
Venue Clock Tower at King's Cross St Pancras
Town London
Country United Kingdom
Text / Lyrics
Author of the Text Aubrey Lavender
Title of Poem or Text The Cloud
Program Notes
The Cloudsets an original text, by English writer Aubrey Lavender, that seeks to highlight contemporary social political subjects. The story is based in two overlapping stories that alternates back and forth between them, focusing on technological revolution with echos of other broader subjects.
One of the stories is about a lonely elderly right wing man. He tries to remove some protesters from his oil-executive son's event and inadvertently gets glued to the stage. Loving the attention he has got from his “protest”, he decides to join the Just Stop Oil movement. The other story is about a prince preparing for his coronation. When he learns of the new face tracking revolutionary technology, introduced by the police in order to track offenders in the coronation, the prince (unhappy) tries to put a stop to it. The prince is pressured to not to interfere and concedes. Halfway through the story, a glitch in the ID system switches the two men files in the database.
