Cantos Sagrados (Hawkes Pocket Score series HPS 1566)
MacMillan, James
Cantos Sagrados (Hawkes Pocket Score series HPS 1566)
MacMillan, James
Series: Hawkes Pocket Scores
Instrumentation: chorus and orchestra
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Catalogue No: M060132964
ISMN: 979-0-060-13296-4
Shop Product Code: 302146F
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Composer's Notes: In writing this work I wanted to compose something which was both timeless and contemporary, both sacred and secular. The title: Sacred Songs, is therefore slightly misleading as the three poems are concerned with political repression in Latin America and are deliberately coupled with traditional religious texts to emphasise a deeper solidarity with the poor of that sub-continent. It was my interest in Liberation Theology which made me combine the poems of the Mothers of the Pl