Score for choir (SATB)
Glas Baglæns is the 5th movement in CONCERT FOR A SPACE AND TIME, is an alternative Christmas concert written for choir and strings site specifically, exploring the space and atmosphere of a shopping and congress center.

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Composer: Lil Lacy
Libretto: Sonja Ferdinand & Lil Lacy
Format: Letter / A4 (14 pages)
Duration: 6' minutes
Year: 2018

First performed Sunday November 24^th 2019, in The Scandinavian Center, Aarhus by ENSEMBLE EDGE and Århus Sinfonietta, led by conductor Mathias Skaarup Sørensen.

Link to live recording of GLAS BAGLÆNS with ENSEMBLE EDGE and conductor Mathias Skaarup Sørensen in Symphonic Hall, Aarhus (2020): https://youtu.be/IWX6RHah-hk

Link to excerpts from premiere with ENSEMBLE EDGE, Århus Sinfonietta and conductor Mathias Skaarup Sørensen, in The Scandinavian Center, Aarhus (2019): https://youtu.be/migZzmu3oPQ

The libretto of GLAS BAGLÆNS dives into the matter of glass, focusing on the transparent material, what it consists of, but also that we can see through it: outwards or inwards – and that what we see depends on who looks and how they see, the eyes (that can look both outwards and inwards) and the people we are.
Parallel with this the different components of glass e.g., sand, silica and quartz are summoned, and we are going back in time to before the glass came into this form. Going backwards in time we arrive at the beach, with our feet buried in the hot sand, with the sound of the waves resonating in the warm air, lifting our hand to shadow for the bright light of the sun, so we can see.
There is an emphasis on the sound “s” in GLAS BAGLÆNS.