5/22/2023 0 Comments The 7 storey mountain![]() ![]() Initiated in 2007 with a Festival of New Trumpet commission, Seven Storey Mountain is a work in process bearing the marks and growing pains of its own development. ![]() ![]() Named after Trappist monk Thomas Merton’s 1948 autobiography (itself a reference to the mountain of purgatory in Dante’s Inferno), the piece echoes the struggles that led Merton to abandon a life of scholarship for spiritual matters, embracing the elation and eventual peace achieved through failure. Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain is a seven part song cycle for large ensemble intended to transmit a state of what Wooley has called “ecstaticism,” or a secular sense of communal emotional release and ecstatic joy tied to the experience of musicians completely engaged in their practice. ![]()
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