Children’s poetry

calendar_today March 26, 2018 schedule 3 min read

Children's poetry

When the war came: Movement 6: Home.

This the shortest segment, as of course it would be. Again, the music here carries the emotion. And we get to know who the narrator...

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calendar_today March 26, 2018 schedule 5 min read

Children's poetry

When the War Came: Movement 5: War

What is completely missing in this segment, really, is the fighting. I simply couldn't find a way to describe it. I wrote a poem about...

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calendar_today March 26, 2018 schedule 6 min read

Children's poetry

When the War came: Movement 4: Dispatches

There had to be a movement for letters home. Those heartbreaking letters from the line , often by people who had never written them before;...

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calendar_today March 25, 2018 schedule 7 min read

Children's poetry

When the War came.. Movement 3: Going to War

This is self-explanatory really. I wanted to capture the apprehension and fear and excitement which might have swept the village after war was declared; the...

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calendar_today March 25, 2018 schedule 3 min read

Abbey Music

When the war came: Movement 2: Work

I didn't want to paint a picture of pre-war England as too idyllic; I'm sure life in a small village like this was pretty tough....

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calendar_today March 24, 2018 schedule 6 min read

Abbey Music

When the War Came

I've decided to publish in this blog the full narration and lyrics of the song cycle we are in the process of writing for the...

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calendar_today April 2, 2017 schedule 1 min read

Abbey Music

Written on Water: The Lantern of the West

1499 After the Saxon Abbey was a distant memory, and the first great Norman cathedral, built on the same spot, had also fallen without trace,...

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calendar_today April 2, 2017 schedule 2 min read

Abbey Music

Written on Water: St. Peter’s Fair

One thing the monasteries gave Bath is often forgotten; St Peter’s fair in 1106, the first street celebration in Bath with jugglers, musicians, fire swallowers,...

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calendar_today April 2, 2017 schedule 2 min read

Abbey Music

Written on Water: The Monk’s Song

I have posted an earlier version of this before, but here is the finished one - not much changed, as I recall, in its proper...

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calendar_today April 2, 2017 schedule 2 min read

Abbey Music

Written on Water: The Coronation of King Edgar

But…over the centuries the waters receded. The springs re-emerged, and out of the sodden wasteland rose another holy place . .this time sacred to a...

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