My North - Rebecca Dale
Our latest release is out now on all streaming platforms.
My North is a new piece by Rebecca Dale, commissioned as part of our Rite to Grieve project.
Premiered on 29 March 2022 at a commemorative event at the National Covid Memorial Wall, My North was commissioned as part of our ground-breaking Rite to Grieve project, uniting choral music with peer-to-peer grief support in the wake of the pandemic.
Dale's stunning new piece sets fragments from W H Auden's Funeral Blues and seeks to capture something of the collective grief experienced by society since early 2020.
Improvised passages of the piece are used during our Rite to Grieve workshops, presented in partnership with The Grief Series. As such, this piece captures the creative process of these sessions in a musical memorial for participants and the wider public.
This initial release will be followed by a second version of the piece featuring spoken word using text submitted by participants in our workshops.
