Mark Bowden and Owen Sheers present "Creation" [working title]: a new musical and poetic collaborative project for chorus, soloists and orchestra

"Creation" is a new collaboration between Mark Bowden, in his role as BBC National Orchestra of Wales’ Resident Composer, and the poet and novelist Owen Sheers.

Taking Haydn's 1798 work "The Creation" as a point of departure, they plan to create a new cantata for the digital age exploring the meaning of creation in the twenty-first century. Through engagement with developments in biology and physics they plan to create a new work incorporating poetry and music that will explore the latest ideas concerning the creation of matter and the emergence of life in the universe, whilst also delving into the human side of the brilliant minds that are currently working to uncover these secrets of the universe.

More information is available here.

Meet them at the CERN Library (bldg. 52 1-052)
on Wednesday 2 October at 4 p.m.

* Coffee will be served at 3.30 p.m.*