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Unsung If the Earth Could Sing is a multimovement environmentally inspired choral work for SSAA choir, percussion, and cello with music by Katerina Gimon and text by Lauren Peat. This work, commissioned by Myriad, centers around the question “if the earth could sing, what would it tell us?”. The environmental crisis has been called the “biggest threat modern humans have ever faced” (United Nations, 2021) and Unsung aims to shed light on its impacts on Canadian landscapes, using choral music as a form of advocacy and a voice for change.

While the sounds of Grand Lac might differ from the brash sound of harmonies in Hurricane or the hauntingly sparse cello featured in Grassland, the theme of change and a disappearance of natural resources on our Earth remains.

Composer Katerina Gimon writes “Grand Lac (Great Lake) moves away from destruction to highlight the beauty of the Great Lakes and river systems that branch through Ontario and Québec. In this peaceful and meditative Frenchlanguage movement, the listener is drawn in by the haunting calm and serenity that the Great Lakes offer but reminded that these landscapes too and the biodiversity they support, are changing.”

For more information on Unsung, please visit https://www.katerinagimon.com/unsung....

Grand Lac
Movement 2 from Unsung If the Earth Could Sing

Performed and commissioned by Myriad Ensemble
(Artistic Director, Elise Naccarato)

Music composed by Katerina Gimon
Poetry by Lauren Peat

Cello, Kendra Grittani
Percussion, Jamie Drake

Audio recording, mixing and mastering by James Kent of JK Sound Studios
Video production by One New Era Xperiences

Captions by Sarah Chadwick

With thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting the commissioning and audio recording portion of this project.Please consider making a donation to Myriad Ensemble so we can continue to sing and create together.