IN THE NAME OF GOD
2016
2016
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composed for:
840 x NME New Music for Voices and Strings St. James Church, Islington, London December 2016 performers: Sara Rodrigues - voice Rodrigo B. Camacho - voice Julia Vaughan - viola Roxanna Albayati - cello ‘In the Name of God’ is a compilation of speeches and interviews by various world leaders, mainly Prime Ministers and Presidents of nations that in the last two decades have been involved in an international conflict. There are both direct and oblique connections between each of the statements, being that all are bound together by their comparable use of religion in matters tightly linked to political power and control. “Yesterday the devil came here, right here, and it smells of sulphur still today…” |
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