FULL The hedge, the world, and everything (Jo Ballard) London 2023 Jane Spurr, Annemarie O Donnell, Joanna Tagney, Yvette Cowley, Pema Wainwright

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The hedge, the world, and everything   
• Composer: Ballard Jo, Jane Spurr  
• Libretto:  Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpit, London, UK  
• Recorded: August 31, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Jo Ballard, Jane Spurr, Annemarie O Donnell, Joanna Tagney, Yvette Cowley, Pema Wainwright
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: MyNewOpera  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The project, The hedge the world and everything, is a time based installation Folk Opera, set to a dreamy other worldly soundscape.

A Cornish hedge is sung into being and wild things are experienced through a sentient beauty, in contrast to the mechanised world and all its desires. The rich, ancient, contained world of the hedge is brought alive by the singing group Wild The Flower. A film compliments the piece.

Music & Songs:

Flowery edge.

Lyrics: Jo Ballard & Meister Eckhert

Arranged & composed: by Jo Ballard

Hear Yea

Lyrics & composition: Jo Ballard

Hal an Tow

Traditional Cornish.

Lyrics & composition: Jo Ballard

I am the Gardener

Lyrics: Jane Spurr

Composer: Jo Ballard

Birth of Hedge

Soundscape: Jon Tye.

Lyrics sourced from the rattlin bog, Old Traditional Folk song.

Excerpts from The Prisoner’s Herbal by Nicole Rose

I am sky

Soundscape: Jon Tye

Lyrical monologue, Jane Spurr.

So Graceful in its Demise

Composer: Colin Seddon & Jane Spurr

Lyrical monologue: Jane Spurr

Arrangement and additional composition: Jo Ballard

The White Rose

Cornish Traditional

Arrangement & composition: Jo Ballard

Soundscape: Jon Tye

Statements

Performers’ own words

Music: Jo Ballard

Produced by: Colin Seddon

When I was the Forest

Poem: Meister Eckhert

Arranged & composed: Jo Ballard

Wassail

Traditional Folk song

Musical Arrangement: Jo Ballard

 

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