Available versions:

Concert version. Orchestra, soprano, narrator (full orchestra 55min)

available in simple community orchestra(40min) and pro orchestra version(55min which is playing now)

School Show. Interactive with full orchestra, soprano, narrator

School show ( coming soon). interactive with chamber ensemble soprano, narrator

Quartet Show 

Shorter version Interactive. (Quartet instrumentation is flexible)

 This is the original 2001 version that we toured with( 23 concerts)

CD( MP3) Version

full music only

full music plus spoken word.

Study Guide (new)

 

One Song Universus
Another standing ovation for the One Song PDF Print E-mail
Written by Simon Cole   
Saturday, 05 March 2011 20:27

Feb 2011

The PGSO performed the OSU community orchestra version with Marion Newman as soloist. Despite the very small orchestra the pgso fielded the performance received a very enthusiastic standing ovation. The audience lept to thier feet with cheers and bravos at the end of the performance. Oddly the local reviewer choose not to mention this (as usual). The quartet version (performances 25,25) went over very well at 2 schools and we also performed it at 2 retirement homes where the people enjoyed participating in the story.

 
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Many years in the making...

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One Song Universus PDF Print E-mail
This piece, written for soprano and orchestra, tells a story set in northern Canada.  The themes include beauty, grandeur, the balance of nature, the interconnectedness of all things, and the need to look inside ourselves for enlightenment.  The story depicts a land where all things are bound together in harmony by a common musical thread or song.  As the people get busier and busier, the musical thread is lost and chaos ensues.  The people go on a quest to find the lost song and after searching the world over and overcoming many obstacles, they discover that the source of the song is inside them and they come to understand that to hear the music in the world, it must be heard first inside.
Simon Cole wrote the soprano narrative specifically for Marion Newman, a first Nations soprano from Bella Coola who is a sought after Canadian soloist.  The work has received standing ovations at every performance.
 

Composer Bella Coola