Great Camelot

Commissioned by Lynx Project for its 2017 Autism Advocacy Project which sets the words of individuals with autism to music in newly commissioned art songs, Hall's six-minute song cycle for tenor voice is expressive and significant. Poet Sameer Dahar is a young man with autism who is primarily nonverbal but communicates by pointing to letters on a board in a process called the Rapid Prompting Method. Using this method, Sameer created beautiful poems that inspired the composer to create a song cycle based on Sameer’s work. The texts of these songs possess mystery and deeply beautiful images, as imagined through Sameer’s experience of living with autism. Contents include: innocence; Traversing Great Solitude; and Your Music Emerges. Each title is also available individually via ePrint.