I´m spending today writing recitative from speech melodies, using the recorded voices of esteemed Guildhall School of Music & Drama vocalists Matthew Mcguigan, Holly Marie Bingham and Chloë Jane Treharne.
In order to get one musical phrase I must listen to the same spoken sentence about 40-50 times in a row. Good bits like "Unlike some men, my theorems do not lie", "Impulsive! Impetuous!" and "Monsieur Galois. Polytechnique has a long tradition for mathematicians, standards which you know very well" are stuck in my head now, happily so.
Évariste opera, libretto by Lori Ann Stephens
