About the music
When Stars Grow Dim is a nonverbal narrative short film that tells a story through music, imagery, and movement — set to the amazing vocals and emotional arc of Cécile McLorin Salvant's rendition of “Until.”
“Until” is a waltz/ballad song written and originally performed by Gordon Summer, better known as Sting, for the 2001 Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning film Kate & Leopold. The song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category.
Salvant’s rendition of the song was featured on her Grammy nominatedg 2022 album Ghost Song.
Cécile McLorin Salvant is one of the most highly regarded jazz vocalists of a generation as well as a composer and visual artist. She’s developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, theater, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. She is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor.
Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010 and received three consecutive Grammys for best jazz vocal album, for The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One To Love. She was nominated for a Grammy for WomanChild.
In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Recent albums, on Nonesuch, include the Grammy-nominated Ghost Song and Mélusine, an album mostly sung in French, along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl.