Owen Leech
Commissioned for Ishirini's tour to Poland, 2012
Première: August, 2012, Krakow, Poland
the lily of heaven is a double choir setting of an E.E. Cummings poem. The English version and Polish translation are sung simultaneously (by Ishirini and Strzyzowski Chor Kameralny in the first performance) producing a remarkable effect as the very different tone qualities of the two languages alternate in prominence or merge together.
