The Dawning Light // Carson Cooman

The Dawning Light
Carson Cooman

Treble choir, a cappella, 10+ min. 

Carson Cooman’s “The Dawning Light” is a seven movement exploration of songs and poems of the Inuit-Yupik (Eskimo) in anonymous English translations. The texts are direct and vivid in their straightforward expression. While not quoting or employing any indigenous musical idiom, the music seeks a similar clarity—striving to allow the text’s images to generate the music in an organic manner. Two outer vocalise (wordless) movements frame the five texted movements. The movements can be excerpted or performed in any combination.