The Lost Lagoon
Voicing: SATB (minimal divisi)
A Cappella
Length: 5:00
Score Video: https://youtu.be/edBtf8gosj4 Audio recording of the world premiere by the Phoenix Chamber Choir, 2024.
*Winner of the Phoenix Chamber Choir (Vancouver, BC) Student Composition Competition 2023
Global Voices Series: The text of The Lost Lagoon is from the poem of the same name by Emily Pauline Johnson. Hailing from First Nations Canada, Johnson writes an eco-elegy for a space once used by First Nations peoples for its saltwater resources as it was damned in the construction of Stanley Park. The park invites millions of guests in Vancouver, BC each year to this day, and honors her legacy at The Lost Lagoon.
Historic Voices Series: The poet, Emily Pauline Johnson, was born in Canada in 1861. From her time growing up the First Nations Mohawk tribe, to traveling Canada, the US, and the UK as a poet and performer, she blazed a trail as a mixed-race Indigenous woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. She spent the second half of her life in Vancouver, B.C., earning a spot in the book, Legends of Vancouver, with monuments throughout the city.
Voicing: SATB (minimal divisi)
A Cappella
Length: 5:00
Score Video: https://youtu.be/edBtf8gosj4 Audio recording of the world premiere by the Phoenix Chamber Choir, 2024.
*Winner of the Phoenix Chamber Choir (Vancouver, BC) Student Composition Competition 2023
Global Voices Series: The text of The Lost Lagoon is from the poem of the same name by Emily Pauline Johnson. Hailing from First Nations Canada, Johnson writes an eco-elegy for a space once used by First Nations peoples for its saltwater resources as it was damned in the construction of Stanley Park. The park invites millions of guests in Vancouver, BC each year to this day, and honors her legacy at The Lost Lagoon.
Historic Voices Series: The poet, Emily Pauline Johnson, was born in Canada in 1861. From her time growing up the First Nations Mohawk tribe, to traveling Canada, the US, and the UK as a poet and performer, she blazed a trail as a mixed-race Indigenous woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. She spent the second half of her life in Vancouver, B.C., earning a spot in the book, Legends of Vancouver, with monuments throughout the city.
Voicing: SATB (minimal divisi)
A Cappella
Length: 5:00
Score Video: https://youtu.be/edBtf8gosj4 Audio recording of the world premiere by the Phoenix Chamber Choir, 2024.
*Winner of the Phoenix Chamber Choir (Vancouver, BC) Student Composition Competition 2023
Global Voices Series: The text of The Lost Lagoon is from the poem of the same name by Emily Pauline Johnson. Hailing from First Nations Canada, Johnson writes an eco-elegy for a space once used by First Nations peoples for its saltwater resources as it was damned in the construction of Stanley Park. The park invites millions of guests in Vancouver, BC each year to this day, and honors her legacy at The Lost Lagoon.
Historic Voices Series: The poet, Emily Pauline Johnson, was born in Canada in 1861. From her time growing up the First Nations Mohawk tribe, to traveling Canada, the US, and the UK as a poet and performer, she blazed a trail as a mixed-race Indigenous woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. She spent the second half of her life in Vancouver, B.C., earning a spot in the book, Legends of Vancouver, with monuments throughout the city.