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Songs of the Ice

by Outi Tarkiainen

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Songs of the Ice is an orchestral work about ice. In the 
Arctic region, the ice breathes with the seasons, swelling in winter and
 shrinking in summer. Its age-old movement sings a song of its own: 
slowly surging, unrelenting and covering all beneath it. It tinkles and 
rumbles, squeaks and laments as our ever-warmer climate breaks Nature’s 
time-honoured laws, forcing the ice to give way. When I composed the 
piece, I was expecting our second child, due to be born in the heart of 
winter when the bitter cold strengthens the ice, making it powerful and 
solid again, and I was vividly reminded of the time after our 
first-born. Songs of the Ice also describes the emptiness and 
reclosing process that begins in a woman’s body when she parts company 
with the life inside her in giving birth. The work was commissioned by 
the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and The Iceland Symphony Orchestra.Songs of the Ice and Midnight Sun Variations can be performed as a pair, in either order, or individually.

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