Bells of Change (1995)

Bells of Change was commissioned by the Chamber Singers of Harrisburg and premiered by the Chamber Singers of Harrisburg and Julius Wirth, Thomas Gallup, directing in Harrisburg, PA on 18 May 1996.

Scored for: SATB choir and viola (or English horn)

Text by: Charles Dickens (adapted by Jeremy Gill)

Duration: 6 minutes

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  • Jeremy Gill’s music is particularly concerned with sound qualities, to the extent that he’ll move his performers to different parts of the hall during the course of a work, as was the case in the Philadelphia premiere of his 2009 work Soglie, Serenate, Sfere, for oboe and two percussionists…this shift also altered the music’s emotional shape—pulling the sound away, creating a distance of not just space but time, as Gill evoked ancient, even primeval impulses.