SKU: 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?

SKU: LO.15-3844H

ISBN 9780787774011.

Winner of the 2020 Queens' College MagSoc competition and the 2021 California CDA George Huessenstamm Choral Composition Competition , this floating, dance-like melody set to the Robert Browning poem truly sings. Song-like in nature, the harmonies have a contemporary and subtle jazz character that rings through sentimental text beautifully. Composed as a set of three compositions, also look for Day of Fire and Sun (15/3898H) and Give Me Your Stars to Hold (15/3843L)ire and Sun (15/3842L and Give Me Your Stars to Hold (15/3843L).