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Christmas Light

2020

for SATB choir and carillon

duration:

12’

I made this setting for SATB and glockenspiel to celebrate Betty McKellar’s 90th birthday.

I first discovered her work in the nineties, and set her poem Cramasie Threid for soprano and cello. I then took the poem Sangsters as the starting point for a concerto for orchestra which was premiered by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in 2002.

This short piece is a tribute to Betty’s creativity, warmth and optimism.

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