A moving story for unison voices and piano imagining the thoughts of a baby elephant separated from its family and transported from the wilds of Africa to a zoo a long way from home. The catchy melodies and inventive lyrics bring home to children the horror of ivory hunting and some disadvantages of zoo captivity. A splendid piece for end-of-term performance that also provides an excellent basis for classroom activity. 25 mins.Published in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature: performances of this work will benefit the WWF.You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.

Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote some of his most moving and effective Choral music was set to religious words as in this setting of texts from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes chapter 44. This piece while affecting and verymuch in the Vaughan Williams harmonic style is uncluttered and convincing in its simplicity.