Great Camelot

Score title: Great Camelot
Composer: Juliana Hall
More about the composer: Juliana Hall
Date: 2016
Instrumentation: Tenor voice, piano
Sample: Listen to Great Camelot on the composer's website
Library copy: Borrow from UMKC Libraries
Program note: Sameer Dahar is a young, autistic man who is primarily non-verbal, but communicates by pointing to letters on a board in a process called the Rapid Prompting Method. Using this method, Sameer created beautiful poems that inspired composer Juliana Hall to create a song cycle for tenor and piano based on Sameer's work. The texts of these songs possess mystery and deeply beautiful images, as imagined through Sameer's experience of living with autism.