Unaccompanied SATB with some divisi
Duration: 3’
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Storms Bert and Darragh have been and gone, leaving destruction, renewal and peace in their wake.
I happened to be finishing this work at night, while Darragh was terror, and faith was that the ash wouldn’t give in to die-back and rubble the house. As it was, the ash swayed and held and it was the beech that cleaved. And somehow, amidst this – the worst storm in 30 years – the animals shift, align and sleep.
More Fieldwork Pieces
The Singing Glacier
For baroque ensemble. Collaborative response to glaciers, commissioned by The Little Baroque Company. In 2016 Bill and the poet Helen Mort climbed in East Greenland.
Torchlight
SATB, solo piano, solo sop. Commissioned by King’s School, Worcester. On Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Bill watched white-necked ravens duetting.
Icicle
Part of the project, ‘The Singing Glacier’. For violin, viola and glockenspiel.