Citations:etherealism


 * Sunday November 7 1999. With a song on his lips and a stick in his foot by Fiona Maddocks in The Observer
 * His inspiration sprang from two sources: the soaring spaces of York Minster and a simple, single-line chant to the Virgin Mary by the twelfth-century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen. His response to the architecture was to amplify the singers and relay them through speakers in various parts of the building, laying these echoing voices over a bed of resonant, orchestral sound. Hildegard's monody was transformed by a wonderful splintering and reforming of the musical line. Bainbridge's earthy etherealism is a refreshing contrast to the timeless, swoony meditations of his more mystically disposed colleagues.