Album artwork for The Blue Hour by Grimes / Negron / Nova / Shaw / Snider
Album artwork for The Blue Hour by Grimes / Negron / Nova / Shaw / Snider

The Blue Hour is a song cycle written collaboratively by the composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider with the chamber orchestra A Far Cry (Shara 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.

Grimes / Negron / Nova / Shaw / Snider

The Blue Hour

Nonesuch
Album artwork for The Blue Hour by Grimes / Negron / Nova / Shaw / Snider
CD

$18.99

Released 10/14/2022Catalog Number

075597907995

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Grimes / Negron / Nova / Shaw / Snider

The Blue Hour

Nonesuch
Album artwork for The Blue Hour by Grimes / Negron / Nova / Shaw / Snider
CD

$18.99

Released 10/14/2022Catalog Number

075597907995

Learn more

The Blue Hour is a song cycle written collaboratively by the composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider with the chamber orchestra A Far Cry (Shara 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.