A Choral Suite for Two Part (Soprano and Alto) Children's Chorus setting the text of George Mackay Brown.
This enchanting 12-minute cycle is typical of the subtle and delicate way Maxwell-Davies approaches writing for children: straightforward, tender, affectionate, yet with just a hint of the complexity found in challenging 'adult' works like the cycle Westerlings. George Mackay Brown's poetry with its haiku-like short stanzas and pointilliste allusive imagery leaves you constantly intrigued : who is the boy 'lost on the hill till sundown', and why is time 'a bird with white wings?' Is this perhaps the poet himself playing a bit of holiday truant?
This enchanting 12-minute cycle is typical of the subtle and delicate way Maxwell-Davies approaches writing for children: straightforward, tender, affectionate, yet with just a hint of the complexity found in challenging 'adult' works like the cycle Westerlings. George Mackay Brown's poetry with its haiku-like short stanzas and pointilliste allusive imagery leaves you constantly intrigued : who is the boy 'lost on the hill till sundown', and why is time 'a bird with white wings?' Is this perhaps the poet himself playing a bit of holiday truant?
A Work For Poets
Anne Bevan, Sculptor - Hills, Woolcraft, Stone
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Winter- An Island Boy
Anne Bevan, Sculptor - Hills, Woolcraft, Stone
Lux Perpetua
Winter- An Island Boy
| Arrangement | SSAA |
| Genres | Choral, Christmas, Post-1900 |
| Format | Vocal Score |
| Level | 4 |
| NumberOfPages | 32 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Chester Music |
| Contributors | Maxwell Davies, Peter (Composer) |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9781844492893 |