Invictus: A Passion is a work by British film and television composer Howard Goodall, who has carried on a parallel career of choral music composition for some years. It is thoroughly tonal and tuneful, and those with absolutely no sympathy for British crossover music will not find much to like here. Everyone else, however, will find a fresh way of approaching the Passion story. For one thing, there's the text, described by the composer as a woman's approach to the Passion story. Rather like John Rutter, Goodall mixes texts ...
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Invictus: A Passion is a work by British film and television composer Howard Goodall, who has carried on a parallel career of choral music composition for some years. It is thoroughly tonal and tuneful, and those with absolutely no sympathy for British crossover music will not find much to like here. Everyone else, however, will find a fresh way of approaching the Passion story. For one thing, there's the text, described by the composer as a woman's approach to the Passion story. Rather like John Rutter, Goodall mixes texts from various sources with a 1611 narrative poem, Salve Deus Rex Judæorum , forming the framework. (This may have been the first book written in Britain by a woman.) Goodall goes forward in time with other texts, several of them by woman, and several addressing forms of persecution other than that of Christ. The work was commissioned by a Methodist church in Houston, Texas, and some of the texts, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Ellen Watkins Harper, are truly on point. The structure...
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