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New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records The Blue Hour, a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider; this unique joint vision among a female collective is available October 14, 2022. The cycle was commissioned by, and is performed with, the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry. (Nova also is featured as vocal soloist.) Set to excerpts from Carolyn Forché's epic poem On Earth, the music follows one woman's journey through the space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non-linear images. Exploring memories of childhood, of war, of love, and of loss, The Blue Hour amplifies the beauty, pain, and fragility of human life from a collective female perspective. Album Tracks 1. The Blue Hour No. 1, Prologue 2. The Blue Hour No. 2, Opening 3. The Blue Hour No. 3, a Black Map 4. The Blue Hour No. 4, a Memory 5. The Blue Hour No. 5, a Syllable 6. The Blue Hour No. 6, Angelica-Balefire 7. The Blue Hour No. 7, Canticle 8. The Blue Hour No. 8, Dark 9. The Blue Hour No. 9, Early Summer's Green Plums 10. The Blue Hour No. 10, Even If By Forgetting - By Shara Nova 11. The Blue Hour No. 11, Firmament 12. The Blue Hour No. 12,1st Refrain 13. The Blue Hour No. 13, Ghost Swift 14. The Blue Hour No. 14, He Told Her How 15. The Blue Hour No. 15, Her Hair 16. The Blue Hour No. 16, I Am Alone 17. The Blue Hour No. 17, in the Toy Store 18. The Blue Hour No. 18, It Appears to Be An Elegy 19. The Blue Hour No. 19, J'ai RÊVÉ 20. The Blue Hour No. 20, Keeping a Record - By Shara Nova 21. The Blue Hour No. 21, Library Lilac 22. The Blue Hour No. 22, My Dear 23. The Blue Hour No. 23, Nevertheless 24. The Blue Hour No. 24, Oil Soap 25. The Blue Hour No. 25, Older Than Clocks 26. The Blue Hour No. 26,
