Choral (SSAA Choir)
SKU: HL.14021007
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical,
Youth Choir. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2003. 28 pages. Chester
Music #CH61800. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14021007).
ISBN
9781844492893.
8.5x11.0x0.088
inches.
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?
