World premiere of ground-breaking ‘one world’ oratorio
Saturday, 14th May 2022, 7.30pm at St Giles’ Cripplegate, London EC2Y 8DA
The world premiere of Blue Pearl, A One World Oratorio will be performed on May 14th at St Giles’ Cripplegate in London’s Barbican by the London Mozart Players, Excelsis and Vox Farnham Chamber Choirs, conducted by Rob Lewis. The concert will be streamed live and on demand for seven days. The soloists will be Angela Hicks (soprano), Luthien Bracket (mezzo-soprano), David de Winter (tenor) and Geoff Williams (bass). Blue Pearl is the first choral piece composed by Steve Banks, a successful classical and folk musician and song writer. The central image in this inspiring major new choral work is the earth seen from space: a Blue Pearl, a fragile, beautiful, living planet, a unity-in-diversity. Steve is part of the emerging ‘Integral’ movement in the arts, and the Integral understanding of spirituality is evident in the work. ‘Integral’ here refers to a new, comprehensive map of human potentials pioneered by American philosopher Ken Wilber (you don’t need to know Wilber’s work to appreciate the piece). A central theme of Blue Pearl is that we are at a time when humanity needs to act ‘in concert’ as never before, understanding the earth as a whole.
