Abstract
Marble Anthem is a musical response to the monument of Sir John Stainer housed in St Paul's Cathedral. The sculpture was made by Henry Pegram RA (1862-1937) in 1903, and is inscribed with the title of Stainer's most famous choral anthem ‘I saw the Lord’ (1858).
In Marble Anthem, ‘I saw the Lord’ is heard in its entirety but for the most part it is transformed beyond recognition. First, it gradually becomes buried within the acoustic of the nave of St Paul’s Cathedral, captured with an impulse response recording.
then it drifts upwards to the acoustic of the much smaller library on the floor above ‘borne aloft on smoke and flames’, and finally it returns to the nave to rapidly emerge from its subsumed state for the final ‘Amen’.
Pantheons: Sculpture at St Paul’s Cathedral, c.1796-1916
In Marble Anthem, ‘I saw the Lord’ is heard in its entirety but for the most part it is transformed beyond recognition. First, it gradually becomes buried within the acoustic of the nave of St Paul’s Cathedral, captured with an impulse response recording.
then it drifts upwards to the acoustic of the much smaller library on the floor above ‘borne aloft on smoke and flames’, and finally it returns to the nave to rapidly emerge from its subsumed state for the final ‘Amen’.
Pantheons: Sculpture at St Paul’s Cathedral, c.1796-1916
| Original language | English |
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| Size | 8 minutes |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |