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Christus Apollo: Cantata Celebrating the Eighth Day of Creation and the Promise of the Ninth is a cantata in four movements for narrator, mezzo-soprano, choir, and orchestra, based on a text by the science fiction author Ray Bradbury and composed by the American composer Jerry Goldsmith.
Jerry Goldsmith: Christus Apollo. BUY OR LISTEN. Features the cantata Christus Apollo for contralto, narrator, chorus and orchestra; narration by internationally acclaimed actor Anthony Hopkins; text by Ray Bradbury.
In 1969, the California Chamber Symphony commissioned Goldsmith to compose a cantata based on the text "Christus Apollo" by science fiction author Ray Bradbury, with whom Goldsmith had previously worked on dramatic radio and later the 1969 film The Illustrated Man.
Aug 9, 2011 · But if one branches out to vocal music, then there is a piece that deserves to be better known than it is: a setting of Ray Bradbury’s poem/cantata “Christus Apollo” by Jerry Goldsmith,...
Dec 26, 2018 · Ray Bradbury’s CHRISTUS APOLLO cantata, music by Jerry Goldsmith and narrated by Charlton Heston, was first publicly performed on Dec 21, 1968. Four days later, the Apollo 8 crew broadcast a far earlier inspirational text from Lunar orbit: “In the beginning …”
Goldsmith records that his working relationship with the author dated back to 1950's radio; and 1969 was not only the year of the first Apollo landing on the moon, but of the film of Bradbury's Illustrated Man, for which Goldsmith wrote the score.
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Apr 11, 2010 · Album: Christus Apollo / Track: 2 // Composed and Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith // Performed by The London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices // Mezzo-Sopra...
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