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Here, for one of a series of seven commissioned works based on Noye’s Fludde, Mackay quickly noted down her immediate impressions for later reference: ‘Soon as the evening shades prevail fig. 115–116 (where it goes into F major). Lots of dark blue /indigo. Moon and stars.’
Soon as the evening shades prevail
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth.
Joseph Addison, The Spacious Firmament on High, set by Britten to Tallis’s Canon in Noye’s Fludde (1958)
Watercolour on paper: 36 x 48.3 cm. Mounted: 59.5 x 69.3 cm. Framed: 62 x 72 cm. [Artist’s collection] |
