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    • All Chamber Ensemble Choral Large Ensemble Solo
      Solo

      Morlich Meditation

      April 28, 2021

      Solo

      Sylva Suite

      August 1, 2019

      Choral

      Book of Rounds

      May 26, 2019

      Choral

      …Luciferum…

      April 24, 2019

      Chamber Ensemble

      Stone Study no.2 – Cave and Cliff

      March 20, 2018

      Chamber Ensemble

      Shadow Play

      January 26, 2018

      Chamber Ensemble

      Five Winter Tableaux

      January 26, 2018

      Chamber Ensemble

      Three Idylls

      January 26, 2018

      Choral

      Book of Rounds

      May 26, 2019

      Choral

      …Luciferum…

      April 24, 2019

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      Garden Days

      January 27, 2018

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      Snail Litany

      January 27, 2018

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      Viderunt Omnes

      January 26, 2018

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      Lullay

      January 26, 2018

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      January 26, 2018

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      January 26, 2018

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      Morlich Meditation

      April 28, 2021

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Songs from a Cornish Dozen

A. Walker (2017) SATB (with divisi) and Organ

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I. Long walk to the beach

II. Cradle song

III. Childhood beach

IV. Sojourner

V. St Anthony then and now

On first reading Ann Walker’s A Cornish Dozen I immediately felt its musical potential, and felt I would be able to provide a musical setting of many of the poems which would complement rather than impose. I eventually wrote a set of five songs for chorus and organ, which hopefully enhance the ideas already present in the poems, as well as presenting something of the themes and dualities that run throughout the whole ‘dozen’.

The first Long walk to the beach brings impressions of Cornish towns and seascapes together in an expanding procession. Cradle Song then moves into an inner, almost claustrophobic world, as a child discovers an elderly relative lying in state in a forbidden room. Childhood Beach pairs sea and childhood in a setting for women’s voices only, that has a playful, almost naïve energy. Sojourner then imitates the sound of a Cornish pub, where a ‘half-soaked’ male chorus sing a folk-inflected song about a young man William Kalensowe, who was so in love that he gave up his freedom for Charity Paskowe. St Anthony Then and Now finishes the set on a mysterious, questioning, but eventually resolved note, as the poem meditates on the past with a sense of simplicity and regeneration.

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