year of composition

2016

Instrumentation

• Anchorite: mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
• Upstream: female choir (SMA)
• Mouth full of birds: men’s choir (TBarB)

Duration

• Anchorite: 3’15
• Upstream: 3’15
• Mouth full of birds: 3’

Commisioned by

The International Choir Contest of Flanders-Maasmechelen

Lyrics

• Lyrics by

  Helen White

• Language

  English

Première

• Date

  7 October 2017

• Place

  Maasmechelen (Belgium)

• Performers

  see performances

Score

Published by Euprint

LINKS

• Images of the flood from Upstream, in the area where the poet’s mother lives
• '2007 United Kingdom floods' on Wikipedia

Audio

SoundCloud

Photo © Helen White