Malvern Water Music
Concert
The Malvern Spa Association's first new piece of Malvern Water Music for the 21st century is being created with the community by Liz Dilnot Johnson who is based in Malvern.
With the community in Malvern Liz has created three new songs for voice and piano inspired by and telling part of the story of Malvern Water, as well as asking questions about the future of the Hills, the water, and how the people can play their part in making the most of this natural and health-giving resource.
Philippa Wright - soprano Tim Sidford - piano
The proceeds of the concert will be divided between the Hills Singers and the Malvern Spa Association.
Tickets £11.20 from the Malvern Theatres Box Office
This is a Midsummer Malvern Event
CommunityWorkshop
As part of the Malvern Water Music Project Liz led a community workshop at the Octagon Centre, Malvern, exploring the sounds, words, history, and geology of the famous Malvern Springs and Wells on the Malvern Hills to create one of the songs for the performance at Malvern Theatre on Friday 4th July
Young writer's words
Skully Dege, one of the Creative Waves MLWC group has written words for two of the songs for the project. Skully has recently moved to Malvern from the USA and here are the full texts she has created:
Malvhina by Skully Dege
In the beginning, it was foretold that a wonderful woman would wander down from the clouds and bless the land in the centre of the rolling hills with an almost magical rain. She was in a very giving mood - she chose the town for the landscape; something akin to ‘The Hills Like White Elephants’ and the fertility of the Venus of Willnedorf, maybe? She was also a nurse in the spirit world, known for healing wounds with her magical dihydrogenmonoxide (water). But what she really wanted was a child of her own and hoped Saturnalia would give her that, but as it was it was not to happen, and so Malvhina gave a town its water, instead. As it was, in the beginning, when the first water droplets rained down to the land and through the filters of the rocks, Malvhina lets out a shuddering breath and weeps for we are her children on the land she keeps. We use her water and now she sleeps.
Rain Dance by Skully Dege
Rain falling in the forest.
Rain falling on the tar.
Rain falling on the fields.
Dripping, dripping, dripping
Rusting, rusted, rusty -
Rain dance.
Thunder, lightning, faucet running.
Ripples, rock shipping, bank sitting,
River hopping, frog floating on by.