NONESUCH RECORDS: Sarah Kirkland Snider on Collaborating with Video Designer Deborah Johnson / CandyStations on "Mass for the Endangered"
NONESUCH RECORDS: Sarah Kirkland Snider on Collaborating with Video Designer Deborah Johnson / CandyStations on “Mass for the Endangered”
“In this essay, composer Sarah Kirkland Snider shares the story of (and behind-the-scenes photos from) her collabortion with video designer Deborah Johnson / CandyStations on Snider's Mass for the Endangered. The Mass, with a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action. The recording, on which the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus performs the piece, is due September 25 on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records. 'Sanctus/Benedictus,' from the piece, is available now, as is this video for it created by Johnson.”