Track-by-Track Breakdown: Grace McLean Goes In The Green : vimarsana.com

Track-by-Track Breakdown: Grace McLean Goes In The Green


With orchestrations by McLean and Kris Kukul,
In the Green centers on the origin story of Medieval healer, composer, exorcist, and saint Hildegard von Bingen. The work premiered at Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow Theatre in 2019. The cast recording features the full cast of the Off-Broadway production, comprising Rachael Duddy, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, McLean, Mia Pak, and Hannah Whitney. McLean won a 2020 Lortel Award for her performance.
Here, McLean breaks down the inspirations, lyrical nods, and more on the recording track-by-track:
Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Rachael Duddy, and Hannah Whitney
Julieta Cervantes
1. "O Virga Ac Diadema"
We wanted the music in this show to be timeless, so that it doesn’t necessarily evoke a particular time period but rather exists outside of time, being both ancient and modern. I was of course inspired by Hildegard’s own music—which this is in its essence, although it has been put through the Grace mill—and it’s all in Latin. Although I tried to scrub any direct reference to Catholicism, Christ, or the specifics of the system in which Hildegard and Jutta found themselves—my hope is that the system and structure of Church would be substituted in the minds of the audience for any oppressive system cloaked in beneficence, or any institution without rival—we left a few sprinklings of Latin in the show to evoke that feeling of the ancient and otherworldly. So it felt appropriate to begin the show with that kind of (dis)orientation by taking a piece of Hildegard’s music and messing with it. Basically, the lead line of this music is hers and I messed with the harmonies, while having the tone more reminiscent of a Bulgarian women’s chorus than a classical western sound. I also wanted to begin the show with a cappella voices, because the way voice is used is so particular in the rest of the show.

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