![]() It tells the Christmas story and concludes with the ‘Slaughter of the Innocents’ ordered by King Herod when he was told of the birth of a child who would become the most powerful ruler in the world. This song comes from a fourteenth-century Coventry mystery play. So in The Spheres, I used a kind of overlapping fade-in fade-out effect to give a sense of floating in space, in darkness and relative silence, surrounded by stars and planets light-years away.” ![]() I wanted the musical evolution of the Mass to go from the most transparent and spacey to something completely earthy and grounded, from heaven to earth, so to speak. ‘The Spheres’ is the first movement in his Sunrise Mass, first performed in Oslo in 2007. ![]() Ola Gjeilo was born in Norway, and moved to the United States in 2001 to study at the Juilliard School in New York. ![]()
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