“You know, everybody in the world used to be a child, or is a child.”

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A music-based work about the beginning and end of life, told through the separate, parallel voices of a woman, her son and the grandmother.
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Starting from the unborn child’s heartbeat, Motherland follows the maternal journey to her child’s early autonomy. And then explores the natural endpoint of that, when the woman faces a shifting role with her own mother.
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The work is for soloists, and a children’s chorus, and will be developed across three countries: UK, Israel and US – with musicians and singers from each nation, working in collaboration.