Mornington Singers

Stephanie is a choral conductor and a composer and a musicologist in many ways, and her work brings together all of the strands of everything that we do at the Department of Music, so it's an incredibly exciting moment to have her here on campus as the inaugural fellow.

She's working closely with Dr. Orla Flanagan and with the Mornington Singers, and Stephanie's going to tell us more about that project.

I will just give you an enticing trailer for now to say that it very tangibly connects Dublin and Toronto, um, in, in ways that we think are going to last long beyond this fellowship.

Um, so Stephanie, you are very warmly welcome.

Um, it depends on what words I emphasize when I'm speaking to you, uh, what the meaning, uh, of the, the text is.

And as a musician, you're sort of imposing a layer of interpretation on, on that text.

Um, so I will choose which words are lengthened, uh, where the top of the phrase is, what the rhythm is, what the mood of the piece has to capture through the harmony- Um, so in setting, setting text, uh, for the Mornington Singers who are workshopping some of the very new music, um, I, I hope that the poetry that I'm setting really captures the mood and the, the sense, the, the import of the text in, in how that is arranged musically.

That leads us very nicely then to talk about that piece.