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We Are Not Here
for SATB choir and piano
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‘When heroines die in opera it seems to take an age. They have enough breath for hitting top C’s but not to continue living. All very puzzling. So too, when an operatic chorus needs to leave the stage urgently, they still find time to proclaim in song and dance how urgent their need to depart is. The following is such a number, decomposed with the greatest of respect to Georg Frederik Handel.‘ - Philip Norman (2022).
'We Are Not Here' was composed by Philip Norman, John Farnsworth and G. F. Handel as the finale of Act 2 from A Stab in the Dark, 1976, a three-act comic operetta by Philip Norman and John Farnsworth. It's 2022 revision was for the purposes of closing the first half of a Philip Norman choral retrospective concert presented by Jubilate Singers at The Piano, Christchurch 30 October 2022
Commissioned note
A Stab in the Dark comic operetta was commissioned from Philip Norman and John Farnsworth by MUSOC 1976
Text note
Text by John Farnsworth and Philip Norman
Performance history
14 Jul 1976: Performed by MUSOC, as part of production of A Stab in the Dark at Ngaio Marsh Theatre, Christchurch
30 Oct 2022: Wit & Wisdom the music of Philip Norman | Concert and book launch