The Blue Hour // Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw & Sarah Kirkland Snider

The Blue Hour is an evening length song cycle commissioned by Boston-based string orchestra A Far Cry, and born of a unique collaboration between five composers: Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider. Set to excerpts from 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize winner Carolyn Forché’s epic abecedarian poem, “On Earth,” the music follows one woman’s journey through the liminal space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non-linear images. Memories of childhood, of war, of love and loss, The Blue Hour amplifies the exquisite beauty, pain and fragility of human life from a collective female perspective. Unmanageable Arts assisted with project management, fundraising and fiscal sponsorship for the recording of this work.